who does mary bennet marry
In Jane Austen’s original Pride and Prejudice , Mary Bennet does not marry anyone on the page, and no husband is mentioned in the novel’s ending.
However, Jane Austen reportedly told her family (as later recorded by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh) that after the events of the book, Mary eventually marries one of her Uncle Phillips’s clerks in Meryton. Many modern discussions and forum threads repeat this as the most accepted “after the book” answer to who Mary Bennet marries.
So, putting it simply:
- In the novel itself: Mary Bennet marries no one.
- In Austen family tradition after the fact: she is said to marry one of Uncle Phillips’s clerks in Meryton.
- In later retellings and spin-off novels, some authors invent other matches for her (for example, pairing her with Mr. Collins), but those are non-canon pastiches and not Austen’s own story.
TL;DR: If you’re asking in strict canon terms, Mary Bennet doesn’t marry in Pride and Prejudice ; in later family recollections, Austen is said to have imagined her marrying Uncle Phillips’s clerk in Meryton.
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