... left no room for women to thrive and succeed. In England, women were powerless with the law of entail. An entail was a legal device used to prevent a property from being broken up, from descending to a female line. Women were not allowed to inherit their father's land because of this law. (www.encarta.com) Austen satirizes this through her use of the ... ...

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