My Head Is Full of Books: TTT: Jane Austen Characters I Just Couldn't Connect With...or Like

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Monday, August 31, 2015

TTT: Jane Austen Characters I Just Couldn't Connect With...or Like

Top Ten Tuesday: Characters You Can't Connect With...Jane Austen version

TTT is hosted at The Broke and Bookish

Today (Monday) is the last day of Austen in August over at RoofBeamReader, so I decided to select all my characters from the works of Jane Austen.

1. General Tilney

Northanger Abbey

Obsessive, mean, and selfish

2. Mrs. Norris

Mansfield Park

Jealous, controlling, thoughtless

3. Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Pride and Prejudice

Snotty and classist

4. Fanny Dashwood

Sense and Sensibility

Selfish and thoughtless

5. Mr Collins

Pride and Prejudice

Annoying, tedious, sniveling

6. Mr. and Mrs. Elton

Emma

He is unforgiving; she is bossy and a loud-talker

7. Mr. Elliot

Persuasion

Self-Centered, Conceited, and neglectful toward daughter Anne

8. Lady Susan

Lady Susan

Scheming and unscrupulous

9. Isabella and John Thorpe

Northanger Abbey

Conniving golddiggers

10. Caroline Bingley

Pride and Prejudice

Conceited and insincere

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