So Odd a Mixture: Along the Autistic Spectrum in Pride and Prejudice':Autism was not a recognized disorder in Jane Austen's lifetime, nor for well over a century after her death. However there certainly appear to have been people who had autism, and Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer proposes that Austen puzzled over and wrote about some of their behaviours just as we do today. So Odd a Mixture closely examines eight seemingly diverse characters in Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice. These characters five in the Bennet