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Social Systems In Literature
What are some example of social systems in the 18th Century/ Restoration that effects literature? I'm having trouble finding what comparisons I can make on how British literature has changed over time.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.well, in very late 18th century Jane Austen, the way an unmarried woman was a burden on her family and so mothers like Mrs Bennet would be frantic to marry their daughters off.
When she writes "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" what she really means is that a woman is in want of a man with a good fortune. Women had no property rights in law.
When she writes "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" what she really means is that a woman is in want of a man with a good fortune. Women had no property rights in law.