Nobody asked for my review- The Other Bennet Sister
You thought I wouldn't watch a series related to Pride and Prejudice? Hah. The joke's on you. :) The newest BBC series in town, The Other Bennet Sister, is an adaptation of the book by the same name, authored by Janice Hadlow, that retells the story of, well, the Other Bennet sister — in this case, Mary Bennet. A ten-part adaptation by Sarah Quintrell, it follows the life of Mary Bennet. If you've read Pride and Prejudice , or watched the BBC series (1995), the movie (2005), or the hundreds of spinoffs and modern-day adaptations of the genius novel that Jane Austen gave the world, you'll know about Mary Bennet. If you are, in fact, living under a rock and don't know about her, then read on. Mary Bennet is the middle sister between Jane and Elizabeth at one end, and Kitty and Lydia at the other. Born at a time when women had practically no rights and no inheritance of their own, their main purpose was to secure a wealthy husband. If he were handsome, that w...