{"id":601,"date":"2026-06-25T14:45:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:45:48","slug":"theres-something-about-mary-bennet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s something about Mary Bennet"},"content":{"rendered":"

If \u201cThe Other Bennet Sister\u201d has taught us anything, it\u2019s that romance can be summed up in two words: bird calls.<\/p>

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In one of the most awkward yet endearing moments in the BritBox series \u2013 which imagines what happens to unmarried sister Mary Bennet (Ella Bruccoleri) after the events of \u201cPride & Prejudice\u201d \u2013 she\u2019s faced with a rather overly attentive Mr. Thomas Hayward (D\u00f3nal Finn) while walking through the forest. Mary had always been drawn to the solicitor and only recently learned that his understanding with another woman had ended. Unaware that her tender feelings are reciprocated, Mary begins talking about birds, as one does.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s classic Mary, not to see what\u2019s standing right in front of her,\u201d head writer and executive producer Sarah Quintrell told Salon. \u201cShe needed to stop him talking, and I thought she would say, \u2018Is that the lark?\u2019 And then I thought she\u2019ll do some really embarrassing bird noise. Then, because it\u2019s Hayward, he\u2019ll join in, and it was really important to show that he matches her.\u201d<\/p>\n

What follows is an unrepentantly goofy scene in which Mary attempts a serious discussion about and demonstration of the difference between lark and thrush calls. Mr. Hayward\u2019s answering bird noise is enthusiastic, if not entirely precise.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was with my partner the night before, and we were listening to birds on YouTube,\u201d Ella Bruccoleri told Salon. \u201cI was like, \u2018Oh, let me really try and nail the thrush.\u2019 and I was really trying to go for accuracy, listening to it over and over again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I get to set, and D\u00f3nal has not gone for accuracy,\u201d she continued. \u201cHe\u2019s just gone for the most insane version. He\u2019s like \u2013 it could be a parrot, it could be anything \u2013 he\u2019s just squawking away. So I\u2019m like, OK, but I think that\u2019s probably quite alright because Mary would go for accuracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quintrell added, \u201cIt\u2019s sweet because [Mr. Hayward] is connecting to her. He\u2019s saying it\u2019s OK to be yourself, and you don\u2019t have to be perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Regency-era gestures of love go, inaccurate bird impersonations are simultaneously the nerdiest and wackiest. Mr. Darcy would never . . . and that\u2019s the point. Mr. Hayward isn\u2019t trying to impress Lizzie Bennet; he\u2019s communing with Mary, in all of her meek and geeky glory.<\/p>\n

Mary, Mary, quite contrary<\/h2>\n
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(BBC\/Bad Wolf\/James Pardon)<\/span> Ella Bruccoleri as Mary Bennet in \u201cThe Other Bennet Sister\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Janeites may be forgiven for overlooking, if not outright loathing, Mary Bennet from Austen\u2019s sacred \u201cPride & Prejudice\u201d text. In a novel full of insufferable characters interfering with romantic soulmates, Mary commits the sins of both pedantry and priggishness. She also \u2013 gasp \u2013 views the sniveling Mr. Collins favorably.<\/p>\n

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As much as the series is Mary\u2019s bluestocking origin story, it also spells her freedom, which comes from no longer trying to impress or contort herself to fit the expectations of others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In 2020, however, Janice Hadlow\u2019s novel \u201cThe Other Bennet Sister\u201d upended that framing. Austen, and perhaps the readers, had done Mary wrong. Yes, Mary may suffer from classic middle child syndrome (mathematically she is the median sibling with two older and two younger sisters), but neglect is the least of her challenges.<\/p>\n

In the series adaptation, matriarch Mrs. Bennet (Ruth Jones) disdains Mary to the point of telling an acquaintance, \u201cMary has an awfully ruddy complexion. And she is clumsy, ungainly, maladroite<\/em> as they say. Four good marriages will have to do. I only hope that she does not ruin her sisters\u2019 chances.\u201d This overheard comment, plus a confluence of socially embarrassing events at the Meryton ball later, push Mary to the point of breakdown.<\/p>\n

She believes that if all the signs point to a partner-less destiny anyway, then she may as well flout the dictates of her mother and the marriage mart. Resolute, Mary sets out on a path to become the serious-minded goody-goody readers recognize.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo more ribbons, ballgowns or dance cards!\u201d Mary declares to herself. \u201cThe old Mary would be no more. I would transform into the intellectual one. That was how I would stand out as the other Bennet sister.\u201d<\/p>\n

As much as the series is Mary\u2019s bluestocking origin story, it also spells her freedom, which comes from no longer trying to impress or contort herself to fit the expectations of others. While Mrs. Bennet abhors glasses on women, Mary embraces them, the better to read her books with. Soon, the wireframe spectacles \u2013 often sitting comically askew on her nose \u2013 becomes a charming signature look for her, especially during the series\u2019 more romantic scenes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s this trope, isn\u2019t there, where she lets her down, she\u2019s beautiful, everyone gasps,\u201d observed Bruccoleri. \u201cOr it\u2019d be this insidious thing of just for those romantic scenes, she doesn\u2019t have her glasses on, and they soften the way she looks a little bit. We were very keen to push against that as much as possible, so that she just looks more like herself in those moments.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, in her first meet-cute with Mr. Hayward, he dons his own glasses, the first of many acts in which he matches Mary in the series. Beyond wearing glasses, Bruccoleri also embodied Mary through her actions and posture.<\/p>\n

\u201cI worked with a movement coach, a lady called Lucie Pankhurst, and she was teaching me the social etiquette of the period, and how women would be expected to hold themselves,\u201d said the actress. \u201cI thought Mary would break a lot of that because she just wouldn\u2019t understand why she had to be demure. So we learnt the rules in order to break them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided that a lot of her energy was in her hands and she does a lot of picking her hands under the table. This part of her hand she would take out a lot of her frustration on. The makeup artists were amazing, because every day they would make that a bit raw and put prosthetics around the fingers. She can\u2019t be vocal about all of these frustrations that she has, right? So, yeah, we use that as a focal point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ungraceful Mary, full of grace<\/h2>\n
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(BBC\/Bad Wolf\/James Pardon)<\/span> Laurie Davidson as William Ryder in \u201cThe Other Bennet Sister\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Despite Mary\u2019s misfit qualities, she exhibits a kindness that even the sweetest of her sisters, Jane, lacks. Throughout the series, Mary becomes the catalyst for multiple unsavory characters from \u201cPride & Prejudice\u201d to gain redemption. This begins with Charlotte Lucas (Anna Fenton-Garvey), who regrets marrying Mr. Collins (Ryan Sampson) out from under the Bennets\u2019 noses; then Mr. Collins himself, who feels his wife\u2019s contempt keenly; and finally the social climbing backstabber Caroline Bingley (Tanya Reynolds), who finds herself once again competing with a Bennet sister over a man. In this case, Mr. William Ryder (Laurie Davidson) acts as a rather dashing foil to the bird-calling Mr. Hayward.<\/p>\n

Bruccoleri said, \u201cIn terms of being opposite a person and trying to read how they\u2019re feeling, [Mary] is actually extraordinarily good at it. I think she finds that easier than looking inside herself sometimes, just wanting to be empathetic towards this other person, and wanting to reassure them. I love that about Mary, that she doesn\u2019t want to jump on the bandwagon of, \u2018Let\u2019s all like rail against this person.\u2019 Yeah, everyone kind of thinks Mr. Collins is an idiot, but she\u2019s looking deeper than that and being like, \u2018Maybe he needs a bit of understanding.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Collins bit is from the book, and I thought we can build that out,\u201d said Quintrell. \u201cI wanted to show that she\u2019s somebody who, on her journey, understands the way that the world has treated her and decides not to treat people the same way. It starts with the dinner with Mr. Hurst (Fergus Craig). She\u2019s really gutted; she\u2019s deliberately been put at the other end of the table from all her friends. She\u2019s with a load of old people, and one of them\u2019s got a cough, and one\u2019s got an ear horn. I decided to start there, with her going, OK, I\u2019m gonna make an effort with this man.<\/p>

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\u201cIt all comes from Janice\u2019s novel speaking to me, and so I decided, well, we can do that with Caroline Bingley and with Ryder, when he reads the poem when they\u2019re on horseback,\u201d she continued. \u201cHe reads the poem to her, and he bundles the first line, and that was scripted. I thought,\u00a0 wouldn\u2019t it be interesting if we suddenly see he\u2019s not as polished? He doesn\u2019t get everything right, and when he doesn\u2019t, she says, \u2018Don\u2019t worry about it.\u2019 Because her whole life, she\u2019s been told, \u2018You\u2019re wrong, you\u2019ve messed up, you\u2019ve got things wrong.\u2019 She decides not to be like that towards other people. She decides to go her own way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The more Mary affords grace to others, the more she gains confidence in who she is, as a person with a strong moral compass forged away from her mother\u2019s ambitions. Bruccoleri portrayed this evolution in Mary\u2019s physicality.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe more true to herself she is, the more people love her, and the more drawn people are to her. She doesn\u2019t change herself for anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI used corsets as one of my hacks because I wanted Mary to feel initially quite uncomfortable in her own body,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s that thing of when you\u2019re a teenager and you haven\u2019t quite found how you inhabit your own body, and your limbs kind of feel weird. So we had quite tight corsets on initially, corsets to help with her repressed pent-up-ness. And then we loosened them as we went on the journey. I wanted her to suddenly have her shoulders back and be able to breathe. It\u2019s like she\u2019s become a woman, and a woman who knows herself and feels comfortable within herself.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is in keeping with a revelatory conversation Mary has with Mr. Collins in which he introduces her to Aristotle\u2019s theory about achieving happiness.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I have discovered seems to suggest that it is only through self-knowledge that genuine happiness experienced,\u201d he tells Mary. \u201cI think it is only when we have examined and understood our strengths and weaknesses and been honest enough about what we truly desire from life, only then do we have any chance at all of attaining happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what Aristotle is saying is that our happiness is in our own hands,\u201d she concludes.<\/p>\n

I spoke to Bruccoleri while she was in Austin, Texas for the ATX TV Festival in May. The series had just premiered its seventh episode in a packed theater, during which she wore a long red gown. Although it is not trimmed with spring green, as with the first dress Mary ever commissioned for herself, Bruccoleri confirmed that she had styled herself that day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did choose it. It\u2019s very Mary,\u201d she said. \u201cSometimes, I\u2019ve done events where they bring clothes last minute. Because everything\u2019s so quick, they\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, we\u2019ve got this for you to wear,\u2019 and because it\u2019s last-minute, you like, \u2018I want to feel like myself, but I\u2019ve got to wear it.\u2019 They\u2019re trying to get you to wear big brands; it\u2019s part of this ecosystem. On a personal level, I don\u2019t care what brands I\u2019m wearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like existing in my industry is an interesting comparison [to Mary\u2019s Regency life], because you do have a lot of people telling you what you should be and how you\u2019re going to be palatable and appealing to other people,\u201d Bruccoleri continued. \u201cIt\u2019s really difficult to not listen to it. I try and keep Mary in my head since doing a show. The lesson there is that the more true to herself she is, the more people love her, and the more drawn people are to her. She doesn\u2019t change herself for anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Proud Mary keep on burnin\u2019<\/h2>\n
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(BBC\/Bad Wolf\/James Pardon)<\/span> D\u00f3nal Finn as Thomas Hayward and Ella Bruccoleri as Mary Bennet in \u201cThe Other Bennet Sister\u2019<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s a truth universally acknowledged that a Jane Austen or Austen-inspired project must be in want of an adaptation; however not all make the transition to screen with the same impact. To this day, fans still hold two \u201cPride & Prejudice\u201d adaptations in their hearts \u2013 the 1995 BBC BBC series starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth and the 2005 Joe Wright film starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen \u2013 both of which inspired references in \u201cThe Other Bennet Sister.\u201d<\/p>\n

Countless other adaptations exist, but few hit. For every \u201cBridget Jones\u2019s Diary,\u201d \u201cFire Island\u201d or \u201cClueless,\u201d disappointments also crowd the TV and movie landscape. Some recent examples include the critically panned Netflix take on \u201cPersuasion\u201d starring Dakota Johnson, and Hallmark\u2019s 2024 \u201cSense & Sensibility,\u201d which despite some buzz for its predominantly Black cast, failed to find an audience.<\/p>\n

In some ways, \u201cThe Other Bennet Sister\u201d had strong DNA and timing on its side. Author Janice Hadlow had a degree in history and had worked for the BBC consulting on and producing historical projects. Therefore, when she turned her hand to Austen, the world and the challenges she crafted for Mary felt authentic.<\/p>\n

Releasing in Spring 2020, the novel became a pandemic hit, providing both escape and solace from the world\u2019s harsh uncertainty. Here was a bookish young woman who was told that she would not be enjoying the fruitful life that her sisters had, that her fate had already been decided. Readers embraced the novel, and its adaptation was a no-brainer for co-producers BBC and BritBox. The series attracted a stacked cast, including Ruth Jones, Richard E. Grant, Indira Varma and Richard Coyle. But finding the right Mary was paramount.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s such a scrutiny on the way women should look and the way women should behave, and if you try and break the mold in any way, you can be celebrated for that, but you can equally be judged pretty harshly for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cWe needed an actress who could carry the entire show on their shoulders,\u201d said Quintrell who admitted to having \u201csweaty palms\u201d when the casting process stretched longer than she expected. \u201cWe needed an actor who could play vulnerability. Actors are very good at smoothing things out and making themselves likable, and actually we needed someone brave enough to be unlikable. And have edges and be scratchy, and also be able to play the real pain of it, but the comedy of it as well. And Ella Bruccoleri embodied all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The series has been an unqualified hit. Its March BBC debut became the biggest launch for a new drama since May last year, and later its arrival on BritBox drove five times the number of subscribers. In its first two weeks, 1.5 million premier-level subscribers had already binged the entire series, which has been rolling out one episode weekly for regular subscribers since May 6.<\/p>\n

Bruccoleri believes both Mary and her journey pushing back at society resonate strongly with viewers. \u201cPeople have quite emotionally responded to Mary,\u201d she said. \u201cI suppose a lot of people who feel it\u2019s a tale of an outsider, and I think a lot of people feel like that within their own lives and in their own experiences. So they feel quite seen by her.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut also, I think women are frustrated, and have been for quite a long time,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd it feels like we\u2019re allowed to be more vocal about that. It\u2019s set in Regency England, but those things haven\u2019t changed. There\u2019s such a scrutiny on the way women should look and the way women should behave, and if you try and break the mold in any way, you can be celebrated for that, but you can equally be judged pretty harshly for it. Why the constant commentary? Do you know what I mean? It would just be nice to be able to exist without fear of that commentary. It doesn\u2019t feel like we\u2019ve arrived at that point yet at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quintrell, who has also helped developed sci-fi series \u201cThe Power\u201d for Amazon Prime, doesn\u2019t take the success of \u201cThe Other Bennet Sister\u201d for granted, knowing full well that even a well-reviewed series can miss finding success.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s weird, isn\u2019t it? You can make a show and with so much love, and it just isn\u2019t the right time,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s happened to me before, and it\u2019s been really painful when that\u2019s happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in 2026, we [all] have a much better understanding of ourselves and our relationships, of the impact of our families on us growing up, and the psychology of all that. Ultimately, this is a story about kindness and not being judged, and we live in a world that is constantly judging. With young people on social media being told, \u2018You need to dress like this, you need to have this, you need to be that.\u2019 It\u2019s a distorted hall of mirrors; you\u2019re either perfect or your life is the worst in the world. The truth is, we have good days and bad days when you live in the real world, and I think to have a show that just says, \u2018Stop judging. Try and be yourself, and let\u2019s just be kind.\u2019 I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s a better time for that than right now.\u201d<\/p>

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