Jane Austen's family suffered for it. .
Appart of this an aunt of Jane was sent to prison accused of shoplifting.
Her life was full of small events, her family had plenty of small problems as many families. Jane Austen's novels are not about big themes as Religion, politics. her novels are about normal people problems, domestic life. The novels deal with the survival of individual in social life. Religion ans politics are important but the main character is the people and not big issues. Every single event is important. According to every single thing have a symbolism in the structure of the play, this structure became really complex.
The most relevant part of the house is the drawning- room. These are drawing-room novels, so they are associated with women.
Pay attention, we are in the time of the industrial revolution, the skill workers are implicit in these novels, so those who control the industries are the new social class, the trade world, the aristocracy, the landowners. They are who have many free time to do things they are going to be characters of Jane Austen's novels.
Her father was rector, and their lived in villages, all the people she knew belong to the social class, the upper and middle classes.
Drawing-room novels or comedy of manners (comedia costumbrista).
It describes the way in which these classes lived.
She never got married, this is ver important, why? She didn't marry but not because any men were interested in her, she didn't marry because she refused to marry. At this moment women couldn't choose to get married or not, their parents chose for them, but Jane Austen's father was very open mind so she was very lucky and she could choose. This is present in her plays. She is very conservative and even boring in this sense, but not after all.
Educated single women didn't have many choices. If you were and educated woman you only could develop 3 jobs:.
TEACHER.-which was very difficult becuase they were not very good paid and they were not free.
