“My poor nerves!” Mrs Bennet as patient: personality, pathology, or patriarchy?

“My poor nerves!” Mrs Bennet as patient: personality, pathology, or patriarchy?

Nick Wooding trained in Oxford, then as a GP before moving to Uganda where he became the medical superintendent of Kiwoko Hospital, a rural hospital. He has also served as vice chancellor of a university in Kampala, where he taught public health. He is now back working as a GP in Oxford. I’ve watched and enjoyed most of the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and the 2005 film twice. I say most: the exception is one character, the irritat…