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In all her novels, Jane Austen highlights the choice faced by women of the small gentry: [4] marry or remain dependent on their family. Marriage was often the primary way for women to gain independence, as under English law , unmarried women were legally under the control of their fathers or other male relatives. [ 5 ]
Jane Austen's parents, George (1731–1805), an Anglican rector, and his wife Cassandra (1739–1827), were members of the landed gentry. [1] George was descended from wool manufacturers who had risen to the lower ranks of the gentry, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and Cassandra was a member of the Leigh family of Adlestrop and Longborough , with connections to ...
Jane Austen (/ ˈ ɒ s t ɪ n, ˈ ɔː s t ɪ n / OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the ...
Characterizing Jane Austen as a romance writer is at best disputed, [1] and at worst a misconception. [2] [3] Austen wrote novels of manners, with some elements of love and relationships that are vehicles for social commentary. Modern movie adaptations about Austen's books have lead to a misunderstanding of Austen's work. [4]
Edmund Bertram is a lead character in Jane Austen's 1814 novel Mansfield Park. He is Sir Thomas's second son and plans to be ordained as a clergyman. He falls in love with Mary Crawford who constantly challenges his vocation. Edmund goes ahead with ordination. At the end of the novel he marries Fanny Price.
3/5 There’s much to admire in this series about Jane and her sister Cassandra, who inexplicably burned many of the writer’s letters, but it cannot quite nail the great author’s piercing satire
In 1796, Lefroy began a flirtation with Jane Austen, who was a friend of an older female relative.Jane Austen wrote two letters to her sister Cassandra mentioning "Tom Lefroy", and some have suggested that it may have been he whom Austen had in mind when she invented the character of Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, as the courtship between Tom Lefroy and Jane Austen took place over the year ...
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