Part one of term paper
In Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice, marriage is a very serious topic, it determines a woman’s class, their happiness for future life or even if they will have a life at all. Marriage Forms alliances between families as land, income and title are extremely fruitful topics. "Single women have a dreadful propensity for being ...

Part two of term paper
... to women, thus Elizabeth's opinion "that though this great lady [Lady Catherine] was not in the commission of the peace for the county, she was a most active magistrate in her own parish" is ironic, since of course no woman could be a justice of the peace or magistrate. Few occupations were open to them -- and those few that were such as being a governess, i.e. a live-in teacher for the daughters of a family, were not highly respected, and did not generally pay well or have very good working condit ...