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‘Pride and Prejudice’ is not only a love story of marriage among the rural gentry in England at the start of the 19th century   Jane Austen was born in 1775 in Hampshire. Her father was a vicar and she had six brothers and a sister. At the age of ....

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.... of lacking money or looks, she would go and live with a married sister or brother. If she did not have any brothers or sisters to live with, she would become a governess. ‘Pride and Prejudice’s’first sentence, ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,’ introduces the theme of marriage, and money, in an ironic way. Jane Austen starts off using intellectual sounding words to introduce the hunt for a rich husband. The sentence contains a mixture of comedy, humour and irony that will continue throughout the novel. In ‘Pride and Prejudice’ we see two est ....