Pride and Prejudice
...male heirs only and if a female in a family didn't marry off into wealth and didn't have a brother that would take care of her after her father died, she was often left destitute. Jane wrote this novel after estates began to be entailed to female heirs. She often wrote of the hardships that tradition in England brought upon females in the early to mid 1800s. Another interesting point about this essay is the fact that it was not uncommon at this time for a family member to marry a relative in order to keep thier wealth and not be left with out the luxuries of middle class life. This is seen in the portion of the book where the cousin of the Bennett family, Mr. Collins, came to Long...