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    06 Jane Austen 1775 1817

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    The document provides context about the Regency period in England and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. During this time, inheritance laws like primogeniture and entailments dictated that estates be passed down to the eldest male heir, impacting many families. As a woman of the middle class, Austen was limited in her professional opportunities but found success writing novels that examined social norms like marriage, class, and gender roles during the Regency era. Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813, explores these themes through the story of the Bennet family and their daughters' quest for suitable marriages within the constraints of their society.

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    The document provides context about the Regency period in England and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. During this time, inheritance laws like primogeniture and entailments dictated that estates be passed down to the eldest male heir, impacting many families. As a woman of the middle class, Austen was limited in her professional opportunities but found success writing novels that examined social norms like marriage, class, and gender roles during the Regency era. Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813, explores these themes through the story of the Bennet family and their daughters' quest for suitable marriages within the constraints of their society.

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    The document provides context about the Regency period in England and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. During this time, inheritance laws like primogeniture and entailments dictated that estates be passed down to the eldest male heir, impacting many families. As a woman of the middle class, Austen was limited in her professional opportunities but found success writing novels that examined social norms like marriage, class, and gender roles during the Regency era. Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813, explores these themes through the story of the Bennet family and their daughters' quest for suitable marriages within the constraints of their society.

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    06 Jane Austen 1775 1817

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    REGENCY PERIOD

    REGENCY PERIOD
    • PRATICE OF PRIMOGENITURE:
    the inheritance of the father’s estate by the
    eldest living male in the main line of descent
    (head oh house)
    • Many families had to adhere to contracts
    known as “strict settlements” or “entails”
    which gave them no say how the family estate
    would be distributed after the death of the
    head of the house. The strict settlement is the
    legal device that places the Bennet daughters
    in such precarious financial circumstances.
    Jane Austen (1775-1817)
    Pride and Prejudice (1813)
    Jane Austen
    Austen was born in Steventon (which is the model for
    the imaginary town in PP), she was a daughter of a
    rector in a local parish
    - worked behind a creaking door (public work meant loss
    of femininity, censorship during the Regency Period)
    - lived with her mother and sister and never married
    - Had a small income inherited from her father and was
    helped financially by her brothers
    - worked in a transitional period (classicism,
    romanticism, realism (Victorian topics)
    Regency Era (1811-1820)
    Regency England (1811-1820)
    King George III unfit to rule and his son the Prince of Wales ruled as his proxy as Prince Regent (King George IV, 1820)
    - socially stratified society:
    king
    aristocracy
    upper middle-class
    lower middle-class
    tradesmen
    working class
    poverty-stricken
    - social mobility (upward)
    - social position established in terms of families (women held the position of her father to be replaced by that of her
    husband, children had the social rank of the father)
    - men occupied the public sphere ( church, law or the military)
    - women occupied the sphere o domesticity (exceptions are the professions of a governess or a teacher in a school for
    girls with an income barely enough to survive)
    - marriage to an economically respectable man was the only legitimate choice
    Practice of primogeniture (the eldest son inherits all)
    Contracts of “strict settlements” or “entails” (the head of the family lived on the property, collected income from it and the
    other family investments and was responsible for the maintenance and care of the physical estate and the other
    sources of family income, but he held the position of a life tenant holding the estate in trust for the next generation)
    Pride and Prejudice
    first title First Impressions (1796-1797)
    - reworked 1811, 1812 and published in 1813
    Themes:
    marriage (practical view of marriage)
    wealth
    class
    property
    Propriety
    love
    money
    PP explores the moral and social conditions of life in the early 19 th century (a
    novel of manners)
    Ironic style

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