ext_28745 ([identity profile] waterowl.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] owlmoose 2006-04-12 09:34 pm (UTC)

Yes a lot of books were written that way. In fact entire books were written through letters. Jane Austen is considered modern in her use of dialogue.

The book explains how Mrs Bennett captured Mr. Bennett with her youthful enthusiasm and beauty. Understated but also a factor in the breakdown of their marriage was the huge disappointment that no son was produced and the strain of the entailment. Jane was never married nor a mother. Although she tried to portray the social and economic pressures, a mother of five unmarried daughters would face trying to marry them all, I think this doesn't translate well now, because women can earn money now. People in Jane Austen's time would sympathize with Mrs Bennett's machinations, because each individual daughter could choose to marry someone with no money, but in order to survive, at least one of the daughters had to marry a man with enough money to support the others. Lydia is literally saved from ruin, because the other daughter/s are involved with men with money who give Wickham money to marry Lydia. At the end of the book, it states how both Bingley and Darcy support the rest of the family economically.

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