1. Women's Concessions in a 19th Century Society
... though she has such a conviction, Elizabeth still grasps the fact that her family does need to conform to society's expectations, and in return so must she. When she states to Jane: " As you are five times as pretty as the rest of us and have the sweetest disposition, I fear it will fall on you to raise our fortunes" The responder can identify ... but the deepest love will induce me into marriage so I shall end an old maid and teach your ten children how to play their instruments very ill." Again highlighting her great hold of reality and the compromises she must make with society in or...
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