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Abstract
After two centuries, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice reveals an important but previously undetected subplot. It is Charlotte Lucas who manipulates the events to contrive a denouement in which Elizabeth gets both Darcy and Pemberley, and Charlotte's husband, Mr Collins, gets the prospect of a valuable church preferment. This lends irony to Darcy's complacency when he and Elizabeth discuss the way in which they have been finally brought together. Little does Darcy know that both he and Mr Collins are puppets in one or other of Charlotte's schemes. This interpretation dispels the anxieties of some feminist critics who feel that Darcy gets the upper hand at the end