Pride and Prejudice: Women’s place in relationships and marriage
Jane Austen collection - photo by Thalita Carvalho Jane Austen (1775 -1817) was born into a large, well-educated family of eight children and lived in Steventon, Hampshire, where her father was a clergyman. Austen was schooled at home like most girls of that time. Her first draft of Pride and Prejudice , then entitled, First Impressions , was not accepted for publication. However, refusing to be discouraged, she continued to write and her novel Pride and Prejudice was finally published in 1813. Jane Austen chose to use her own experiences throughout her novels, using the point of view of a woman living amongst the high-society but coming from a non-affluent family. Therefore, her novels tend to revolve around the lives of the English upper class society, consequently, Pride and Prejudice is classed as a realistic novel. However, through Pride and Prejudice , Austen not only emphasises and criticises her knowledge of the imp...