Elizabeth Bennet

Elizabeth Bennet is the second of five daughters in a Hertfordshire family with more wit than money, sharp-tongued and quick to judge, delighting in her own cleverness. She reads people fast and says what she thinks, unimpressed by rank or fortune, determined not to marry for anything less than real regard.

Austen gave the world its sharpest romantic heroine: someone whose intelligence is also her flaw, whose pride in her own perception is exactly what trips her up. Emma Corrin's casting promises a Lizzy alert and unguarded by turns, someone whose confidence in her own snap judgments makes her eventual humility land all the harder.