Jane Austen: Class and marriage

Professor Kathryn Sutherland discusses the importance of marriage and its relationship to financial security and social status for women in Jane Austen's novels. Filmed at Jane Austen's House Museum, Chawton.
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[@sail2byzantium]

Gee, too short. I was just getting into this--not being as well-versed on famous English Lit. novels as I should or would like to be--and then it ended. If you have more on this with Prof. Sutherland, please let us know.

[@brittanyhibb]

www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/courtship-love-and-marriage-in-jane-austens-novels#
here is the website I found this video on, it explains this concept more

[@glendodds3824]

Most of Jane Austen's books are about the landed gentry, i.e., part of the upper-class.

[@mulkytool]

All about marrying a rich dude.