Part 1 of Essay
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 ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... 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 conditions. Therefore most "genteel" women could not get money except by marrying for it or inheriting it and since the eldest son generally inherits the bulk of an estate, as the heir, a woman can only really be a heiress if she has no brothers or any other living male relative. Only a rather small number of women were what could be called pro ....