2.2 Harriet and Martin     5
2.3 Jane and Frank    8
2.4 Emma and Knightly    9
3 Jane Austen’s View on Love and Marriage    11
3.1 Marriage Based on Money    11
3.2 Marriage Based on Social Status    12
3.3 Marriage Based on Manners    13
4 Women’s View on Love and Marriage in Today’s Society    14
5 My View on Love and Marriage    15
6 Conclusion    16
Bibliography.17
1 Introduction
Jane Austen was born in a close-knit family in 1775. She was primarily educated by her father and her older brother as well as through her own reading because of poverty and other reasons. Her family’s constant support was very crucial to her development as a writer. She never married out of  what we call social status although love once stroke her. Later, a rich man proposed to her, but she refused as she didn’t love him. Throughout her life she was working on literature, which made her become one of the most popular female writers in the United Kingdom.

Jane Austen was a well-known writer whose works were mainly related to women’s marriage and life, with her female specific meticulous observation, sense and lively interesting words, and truly made her earn a place as one of the most widely read writers in the United Kingdom. When she was 21years old, she wrote the first novel not published at first. But she never quit writing, she had her own writing style. Austen's work style was relaxed and humorous, full of comic conflicts. As Austen lived in a feudal forces powerful country, together with family, so life circle was very small. This made her works often limited to common love story, and her works to some extent reflected the feudal forces. This made the Austen’s works for a long time were considered the pulps. Her social commentary, biting irony and realism as well as her acclaimed plots have made her become a historically important scholar and critics. As one of the most critical and crucial female writers of the Victorian Ages in Great Britain, Jane Austen had an unequaled perspective of love and marriage.

Throughout her life, she wrote a lot of novels. Among them, Sense and Sensibility(1811), Pride and Prejudice(1813), Mansfield Park(1814), Emma(1815) were her distinguished works. Although Emma was not as famous as Pride and Prejudice, it was regarded as the most mature novels of Jane Austen’s works.

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