A 5 page essay that discusses what Austen has to say about single women in British society. All of the accounts of single women in the novel point to the fact that that women, at this time in British history, had no real political or civil power of their own. Given this fact – that a female's position in society was entirely defined by her male associations – it is, therefore, understandable that all of the attentions of the single women in the novel are directed toward possible marriages between eligible females and likely males. The young women are concerned with finding mates, and the older single women, the widows, are, likewise, preoccupied with possible pairings. No additional sources cited.
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