ENGELS UNIT 3

• Women could not inherit estate, they didn't get anything (land & family home) only money
• Estate went to first born son/ nearest male heir
• When a family didn't have sons, the mother and daughters were scared to be thrown out of the house when the father died
• Women didn't work, had no education, so they have no income
• The only way out: marriage = security & independence
• Irony


  More witty, clever
• Sarcasm


  More directed to the person
• Thematic link in Pride and Prejudice

  Money & marriage (finding a rich husband)
• Elizabeth Bennet


  • Kind
  • Witty
  • Wise & intelligent
  • Energetic
  • Sarcastic
• Mr Bennet


  • Witty
  • Wise & intelligent
  • Philosophical
  • Teasing Mrs bennet
  • has to meet mr BIngely
• Mrs Bennet


  • Hysterical
  • Silly
  • Scheming
  • Excitable
• Jane Bennet


  • Kind
  • Reserved
• Lydia & Kitty Bennet


  • Hysterical
  • Silly
  • Immature
  • Excitable
• Mr Darcy

  • Dignified
  • Conceited
• Mr Bingley


  • Rich
  • Rented a huge mansion near Bennet household
  • Netherfield Park
  • Young bachelor
  • Kind
• Caroline Bingley


  • Bitchy
  • Conceited
  • Haughty
  • Conniving
• Biopic


  Film that dramatized the life of a person; not the same as a biography
• Expected to be truthful, but some changes in events to suit the storyline
• Some of them are controversial
• There is a biography of Jane Austen written by Claire Tomaline → regarded as the 'definitive' biography of J.A.
• Jane was in love with Tom(as) Langois Lefroy (wrote it in letters to Cassandra)
• Tom was also in love with her (confessed to his nephew)
• Didn't propose
• Boyish love


  Purest form of love
• He admired Ton Jones, but was not himself when it came to the point
• Sophia western→ comparison to Jane
• Tom


  • Father made an unwise marriage, was retired in Ireland, had a lot of mouths to feed
  • He was the eldest son
  • Financially dependant on his great-uncle (college in Dublin & law school in London)
  • Expectations of the whole family laid on him, he could not risk his future with a penniless girl (Jane)
  • 1795: last saw Jan on his Christmas visit
  • Reappeared in Hampshire (in Steventon) once or twice but stayed away from Jane
  • Called to the Bar
  • Married a Wexford heiress
  • 1852: Lord Chief Justice of Ireland
• They both were of the wrong class + brought up to the wrong habits to sacrifice family approval in the name of love
• Jane learned what it is to be entranced by a dangerous stranger + wrote about it in her novels
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling


  1749 – regarded as Henry Fielding's msterpiece
• Story about a rich man named Allworthy who found an infant/ baby in his bed


  1. A maid, Jenny Jones, admits that it's her baby + boy is given the name Tom Jones

  2. Allworthy sorts out the boy's future with the help of his sister Bridget

  3. The boy leads a life of adventure, danger & sexual thrill

  4. The boy married Sophia Western (rich)
• Mother x Father (vicar) (not a lot of money)-> 8 children
• The boys


  • Liked to hunt, shoot sport,...
• The girls


  • Liked the country side,...
• Charles


  • Youngest
• Edward


  • Eldest
  • Had a lot of houses
  • A knight who was related to the family adopted him => easier for the Austens
• James & Henry


  • Same academic interest
• Francis

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• George

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• Cassandra


  • Older sister
  • Good friend of Jane