Pride and Prejudice | Compare and Contrast

  • 1810s: Europe is submerged in warfare throughout most of the decade by the struggle against the ambitions of Napoleon Bonaparte to unite the continent under French rule. Two of Austen's brothers, Frank and Charles, entered the British Navy and fought in the Napoleonic Wars.

    Today: For the first time since the Napoleonic Wars, Europe considers a single multinational government in the European Union.

  • 1810s: In the early nineteenth century, a...

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