Jane Austen, author of Pride Prejudice, the English novelist, gives the novel its modern character through her treatment of the details of everyday life in provincial English middle-class society. The main object of satire in her novel Pride and Prejudice is the mercenary and ignorance of the people-a common criticism of the 18th century. Jane Austen’s powers of subtle discrimination and shrewd perceptiveness are revealed in Pride and Prejudice; she is able to convey such a complex message using a simple, yet witty style. She even calls this brilliant work as “her own darling child”
DEBRA TEACHMAN provides commentary and primary materials On inheritance.marriage,and women’S roles in society at the time of Austen’S life.Excerpts from l8th—and l9th—century etiquette books,moral treatises、histories of women.】