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In Pride and Prejudice, what is the significance of Mrs. Jenkinson?
I don't get why she has any importance. Up to chapter 30, she doesn't do much.
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- Pepere EldridgeLv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
She was simply paid a sweet salary to dote over the frail Miss Anne de Bourgh. I think Jane Austen was gently poking fun at the various ways the nineteenth century British gentry and aristocracy dealt with their enormous sums of disposable cash.
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