"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter One
The best known quote from Jane Austen is possibly the first sentence of Pride and Prejudice, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in...
To start with, all Jane Austen's novels are concerned with love and marriage. They examine this from a variety of different points of view by examining different people with different approaches to...
Jane Austen lived from 1775 to 1817, and during the time when she was writing her major works, there were a series of important wars that affected the lives of nearly everyone in England. Many of the...