Also known as Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Lady Catherine.
Mr. Collins's great patroness, a wealthy, imperious noblewoman of Rosings in Kent, and aunt to Mr. Darcy. She expects deference as her due and gives her opinion freely on every subject, asked or not.
Chapter LVI
She descends on Longbourn to forbid Elizabeth from marrying her nephew, and meets a refusal to be commanded that does more to bring the match about than to prevent it.
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