Jane Austen’s England: everything you wanted to know
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What Does Jane Austen's Work Tell Us About Approaches to Marriage
Jane Austen's work represents a wide variety of what was really concerning people during this early 19th century, late 18th century period. "Marriage for love was becoming more common and we see that happening with a lot of her characters," she says. The upper classes who are guarding fortunes had to think about family alliances.
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