Miss Elizabeth Bennet, of whom we have heard so much!

Miss Elizabeth Bennet is a very strong-minded, very original girl. She is fond of reading, long walks in the countryside (even though her skirts might get a bit muddy!)

At first, she hate Mr. Darcy because of the wrong he did to her sister regarding Mr. Bingley--he persuaded Mr. Bingley that Jane Bennet did not really love him, and besides, she was below Mr. Bingley's station anyway!

But when Mr. Darcy performs a chivalrous act towards her family, Elizabeth cannot help but see him in a kinder light.

Although she is a headstrong girl who says whatever she likes in public--something considered undesirable in a girl at that time--she still remains a true lady.

She does not gossip, like some of her sisters and her mother, and she always keeps a sensible head in a difficult situation.

"Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley's attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting that she was herself becoming an object of some interest in the eyes of his friend. Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying. Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness. Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with." --Pride and Prejudice Chapter 6