Pride and Prejudice: Caroline Bingley's Story

Caroline Bingley has had her heart set on Fitzwilliam Darcy since her coming out ball, but he is extremely difficult to bring up to the mark. Caroline has put her family's background in trade behind her and moved up — at least in her own mind — into the upper class. In her struggle to overcome her less than noble beginnings, Caroline has learned to be proud and arrogant and even proud of being arrogant. As Darcy proves more and more elusive, Caroline fears she may miss out on other opportunities for marriage. Two penniless aristocrats emerge as possible matches for her; however, her unwillingness to give up on Darcy gets in the way of such arrangements. All the while Caroline is tormented by a former childhood sweetheart, a man in trade, who makes it his job to never let her forget her humble beginnings. While her brother romances Jane Bennet and Darcy ends up with Elizabeth, Caroline faces one humiliation after another and finally is forced to wake up to the truth about herself