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The Other Bennet Sister (2026)

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THE OTHER BENNET SISTER (2026–)

The Other Bennet Sister (2026) 1.06: Chapter 6

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Thinking about modern retellings of "Pride and Prejudice" again, specifically how to convey in a new setting the irresponsibility of both Bennet parents, although mostly about Mrs. Bennet.

See, Mrs. Bennet in the original story isn't "just trying to give her daughters a good future / save her daughters from ruin". I have some sympathy for her, given that her marriage has no respect in it and her power is limited, but she's also a selfish, silly, and immature person who is bad at planning for the future, pretty bad at actually parenting her children, and hasn't really cared to try to be better.

She's wasteful with money because she likes to show off. She neglected her daughters' education and blatantly plays favourites. She engages in and encourages embarrassing behaviour in a world where reputation is everything, to the point of being reckless with her children's safety.

I think she'd happily let Modern AU Lydia and Kitty neglect school to try to pursue careers as online influencers.

Like, I think revising a modern Mrs. Bennet into someone obsessed with academic performance and getting her children into good universities could work, depending on what new story you want to tell. But if we're trying to adapt the general spirit of Mrs. Bennet from the original, plus the fact that she is someone to neglect education, I think we have to go waaay more short-sighted, embarrassing, silly, reckless, and so on.

So, continue this "online influencers" line of thought to construct a Modern AU. The Bennets are pretty wealthy but also wasteful with their money. I think that instead of saving sensibly, planning for the future, Mrs. Bennet likes to take expensive family vacations multiple times a year to places that look good on social media, and she's not afraid to regularly pull the girls out of school to get a few extra days for that.

I think she herself didn't do university, didn't like school at all, and "doesn't really see the value in it" when the girls can just marry well or "make their own way if they're smart enough to get scholarships". I think she encouraged the girls to participate in flashy extracurriculars that she can brag about, which may also involve missing school. I think Mary is probably in sooooo many expensive extracurriculars, sports and music and the like, and wants to be an Olympian or something, but Mrs. Bennet isn't really helping Mary organize that well enough to succeed (and also Mary isn't really... good enough to make it).

I think Modern AU Mrs. Bennet lets the girls take off school whenever they claim to be sick, and all of the girls have abused this at least once before, but especially Kitty and Lydia. I think Kitty and Lydia had phones waaaay too young and were on every single social media site totally unsupervised. Mrs. Bennet probably happily helps Lydia and Kitty make "content" (probably has her OWN channels tbh) and talks to everyone about how her 13- and 14-year-old daughters are going to be "the next Kardashians" because they have a YouTube channel with 11,000 followers already!

If Modern AU Jane Bennet was scouted as a teenager to be a model, her mom would be THRILLED. When Jane meets Bingley, she's probably quietly fighting with her mom about quitting her modest modelling career to finally go to university, while Mrs. Bennet is telling everyone about how HER Jane just received an offer to be on a REALITY TV SHOW and is going to be FAMOUS. (Jane doesn't want to take it.) And Darcy in this AU breaks them up because he's sternly and desperately telling a lovestruck Bingley NOT to date a future REALITY TV STAR. That Bennet family is nothing but drama!