‘Pride and Prejudice’ is not only a love story of marriage among the rural gentry in England at the start of the 19th century   Jane Austen was born in 1775 in Hampshire. Her father was a vicar and she had six brothers and a sister. At the age of sixteen she started writing humorous novels. In 1813 she published ‘Pride and Prejudice’. She never got married and she died in 1817 at the age of forty-two. Jane Austen thought that the situation that should be written about is ‘two or three families living together in a country village’. She never wrote about environments she did not know about and only wrote about gentry like herself. That is why the characters in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ are middle class people, like landowners, vicars, and officers. She does not mention servants much. Marriage in Jane Austen’s society marriage is the status all the wo....

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