---
type: Person
title: Caroline Bingley
description: Charles Bingley's unmarried sister, proud and fashionable, who hopes
  to marry Mr. Darcy herself.
resource: raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt
tags:
- netherfield
- hertfordshire
- gentry
aliases:
- Miss Bingley
timestamp: '2026-07-16T18:15:29Z'
citadel_version: 0.3.0
---

Caroline Bingley is the unmarried sister of [Charles Bingley](../persons/charles-bingley.md); her
other sister, Mrs. Hurst, is married to Mr. Hurst.[^s1] The narration describes the sisters as
"proud and conceited," educated at "one of the first private seminaries in town," each with a
fortune of twenty thousand pounds.[^s1]

Caroline Bingley shows a marked interest in [Fitzwilliam Darcy](../persons/fitzwilliam-darcy.md)
and, per the narrator, "saw, or suspected, enough to be jealous" of
[Elizabeth Bennet](../persons/elizabeth-bennet.md).[^s2] She tells Elizabeth directly that
undervaluing one's own sex to attract men "is a paltry device, a very mean art" — a remark aimed at
Elizabeth.[^s3] She warns Elizabeth against trusting [George Wickham](../persons/george-wickham.md),
revealing that he is the son of the late Mr. Darcy's steward and asserting that Darcy has always
treated him kindly, while Wickham "has treated Mr. Darcy in a most infamous manner."[^s4] In a
letter to [Jane Bennet](../persons/jane-bennet.md), she writes at length of her hope that
[Georgiana Darcy](../persons/georgiana-darcy.md) will become her sister through marriage to
Charles.[^s5]

On [Charles Bingley](../persons/charles-bingley.md)'s engagement to Jane, Caroline's congratulations
are "all that was affectionate and insincere"; Jane, though not deceived, writes back a kinder reply
than she believes deserved.[^s6] Caroline is "very deeply mortified" by
[Darcy](../persons/fitzwilliam-darcy.md)'s marriage to [Elizabeth](../persons/elizabeth-bennet.md),
but, wishing to retain the right of visiting [Pemberley](../misc/pemberley.md), drops her
resentment, growing fonder than ever of [Georgiana](../persons/georgiana-darcy.md) and paying "off
every arrear of civility" to Elizabeth.[^s7]

## See also

- [Charles Bingley](../persons/charles-bingley.md)
- [Fitzwilliam Darcy](../persons/fitzwilliam-darcy.md)
- [Elizabeth Bennet](../persons/elizabeth-bennet.md)
- [George Wickham](../persons/george-wickham.md)
- [Georgiana Darcy](../persons/georgiana-darcy.md)
- [Pemberley](../misc/pemberley.md)

## Sources

[^s1]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 1173-1177 — the Bingley sisters' fortune and character (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s2]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 2594-2596 — Caroline Bingley's jealousy of Elizabeth (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s3]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 2129-2132 — Caroline Bingley's remark on Elizabeth (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s4]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 4185-4193 — Caroline Bingley warns Elizabeth against Wickham (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s5]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 5016-5022 — Caroline Bingley's letter on Georgiana Darcy (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s6]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 14341-14346 — Caroline's insincere congratulations to Jane (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s7]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 14483-14487 — Caroline's mortification and reconciliation after Darcy's marriage (ingested 2026-07-16)
