Lit Crit

• 'Marriage... is the concern of all of her novels- right marriage and wrong marriage, the right and wrong reasons for marrying.'-Sherry

  Austen uses it to show the importance of marriage in the Regency Era
• 'She is the most realistic novelist of her age... who was in a sense a Marxist before Marx... She exposes the economic basis of social behaviour with an ironic smile.'-Daiches

  Austen shows us the realistic idea of marriage in the Regency era