1. Money and Marriage
... a neighbor of the Bennets, we can get to know how such social process begins: "Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honor of knighthood by an address to the king, during his mayoralty. The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly. It had given him a disgust to his business ... only "profession" available was that of being a governess, which meant education the daughters of a family, but this was a job with low working conditions and lowly paid. Therefore women had to marry their life into money, happiness ...
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- Grade Level: High School