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[quote=Anonymous]Based on an internet search:

Jane (22)
Elizabeth (20)
Mary (??? 18 or 19 ???)
Kitty (17)
Lydia (15)

Mr. Darcy (26-28, 10-12 years older than Georgianna)
Charlotte Lucas (27)
Mr. Collins (25)
Georgiana (16)
Wickham (?)
Bingley (?)

From Goodreads:

Chapter 5
Charlotte Lucas:
The eldest of them, a sensible intelligent young woman, about twenty-seven, was Elizabeth’s intimate friend.

Chapter 13
William Collins:
He was a tall, heavy-looking young man of five-and-twenty.

Chapter 29
Elizabeth Bennet:
“I am not one-and-twenty.”

Chapter 29
Lydia Bennet:
“Yes, my youngest is not sisteen.”

Chapter 35
Georgiana Darcy:
“But last summer he was again most painfully obtruded on my notice. …… She was then but fifteen.”

Chapter 39
Jane Bennet:
“She is almost three-and-twenty!”

Chapter 41
Kitty Bennet:
"I have just as much right to be asked as she(Lydia) has, and more too, for I am two years older."

Chapter 58
Fitzwilliam Darcy:
Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth!

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