Pride and Prejudice
A comedy of manners with an economic argument underneath: marriage as the only career on offer.
Austen’s 1813 novel of manners follows Elizabeth Bennet as she learns the difference between judgement and prejudice, and discovers how much of her first reading of Darcy was really a reading of herself. Beneath the comedy sits a clear-eyed account of what marriage meant when it was the only career available to a woman of her class.
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