Jane Austen's novels follow courtship, money, family expectations and social rank among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. Pride and Prejudice sets Elizabeth Bennet's first impressions of Mr Darcy against her family's urgent need for advantageous marriages, while Sense and Sensibility contrasts the romantic temperaments of sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood after their financial position changes. Emma centres on a wealthy young woman whose confidence in arranging other people's relationships repeatedly proves misplaced, and Persuasion returns to Anne Elliot years after she was persuaded to reject Captain Wentworth. Austen's fiction is dialogue-rich, ironic and closely attentive to manners, misunderstandings and the economic consequences of marriage. Her work belongs to classic fiction, Regency fiction and social comedy, with later writers such as Georgette Heyer drawing on some of the same period and courtship territory in a more overtly romantic form. Read more Less
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