BBC TO PRODUCE THE OTHER BENNET SISTER INTO A TEN PART REGENCY ERA SET SERIES INSPIRED BY JANE AUSTEN'S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE CHARACTER

 THE OTHER BENNET SISTER 

NEW PERIOD SET SERIES FROM BBC

BBC has announced work on ten part-series THE OTHER BENNET SISTER a fresh spin around the ballroom for one of Jane Austen’s most unassuming characters: Mary Bennet. Based on the hit novel by Janice Hadlow, it will focus on the

The series will have ten half hour episodes

seemingly unremarkable and overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The half hour series will be written by Sarah Quintrell.

  THE SERIES 

takes as its premise that, when it comes to the Bennet sisters, while women dream of being Lizzy, in reality most of them are more like Mary. Unlike her sisters, Mary isn’t your typical period drama heroine. She is awkward, anxious, preachy, full of facts, a terrible singer… overlooked by her mother and seemingly destined to an empty dance card for the rest of her life… until Mary takes matters into her own hands. The series gives Mary Bennet the epic love story nobody predicted for her, taking her from her family home in Meryton to the soirees of Regency London and the peaks and vales of the Lake District - all in search of independence, romance and, most elusive of all, self-love and acceptance.