By K.J. Yossman
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Move over Lizzie Bennet, there’s a new sister that’s set to steal people’s hearts.
Although Mary Bennet is portrayed as awkward and humorless in Jane Austen’s original 1813 novel, she is the star of an unlikely new BritBox series “The Other Bennet Sister.”
In the first trailer, Mary horrifies her social-climber mother Mrs Bennet by daring to wear glasses to help her see better (“But she is a woman!” cries Mrs. B, played by “Gavin & Stacey’s Ruth Jones) and is encouraged to escape her suffocating family by housekeeper Mrs Hill (Lucy Briers, who played Mary in the BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” with Colin Firth).
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