Pride and Prejudice (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Austen
- First Published: 1813
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Fiction of manners, Bourgeois fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Nineteenth century, Social issues, Marriage, Prejudices or antipathies, Class consciousness, Manners or customs, England or English people, Sisters, Money, Soldiers, Conformity, Gossip, Pretensions, Dating
- Locales: Hertfordshire, England
Places Discussed
Longbourn Estate. Home of the Bennet family in southeastern England’s Hertfordshire. The estate is “entailed,” meaning that it can be passed down only through male heirs. Austen uses the estate to point up the condition of single women in early nineteenth century England, demonstrating why they have an intense need to marry. The Longbourn estate is to pass to Mr. Collins, a pretentious young clergyman who stands to inherit Mr. Bennet’s property. After the heroine Elizabeth Bennet turns down Collins’s proposal of marriage, her best friend, Charlotte...
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