Romance vs Interest in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Abstract

I have always found it very interesting that a woman who had never been married in her life wrote a book based on the necessity of marriage. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was the first and obviously one of the greatest English female novelists. Her greatest work, Pride and Prejudice (1813), is a romantic novel which deals with the topic of appropriate marriages. It draws true pictures about society and its values.