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Time Period of her works -

 * English society revolved around a social hierarchy
 * Royalty
 * 1) King
 * 2) Queen
 * 3) Prince
 * 4) Princess


 * Nobility:
 * 1) Duke
 * 2) Marquis
 * 3) Earl
 * 4) Viscount
 * 5) Baron


 * Commoners:
 * 1) Baronet
 * 2) Knight
 * 3) Landed Gentry (Land-Owners)


 * To distinguish between a noble-lady and a non-noble-lady, the first name of a noblewoman was used with her title.

Source #2 : http://janeaustenlit.tripod.com/id10.html

 * Was a time of war
 * Called the, " Regency"
 * Women told people what to do and how to do it
 * They were very much in charge
 * Their work was sometimes a lot, and very hard to do
 * Social parties and balls were held often
 * Dancing was a favorite past time for many upper-class women and men
 * Unmarried women spent a great deal of time with other unmarried women
 * Austen's characters tended to be from her own order, middle class
 * She introduced few aristocrats in her novels
 * Austen emphasizes reality

Source #3: http://kirjasto.sci.fi/jausten.htm

 * In all of her novels her heroine are ultimately married
 * She focused on middle-class provincial life, with humor and understanding

Source #4: http://www.fashion-era.com/regency_taste.htm

 * Her characters are not very rich, but have a comfortable home life and wealthy enough to live without interruptions
 * Her characters spend their time reading, writing letters, walking, riding, dancing, playing cards, listening to music, and enjoying conversation
 * Talk about acceptable manors and unacceptable behavior
 * Over all though, their conversations focused on love and marriage

Source #5: http://www.beaubrummell.com/regency.html

 * The Regency period era was that narrow period after the Georgian time
 * 1790-1820
 * Regency means current ruler
 * A regency gentleman normally did not work any occupation
 * Instead they gambled on cards and horses
 * A gentleman attended parties, balls, musical evenings, the theater, the opera and country house parties
 * The importance of the social whirl cannot be underestimated

Source #6: http://www.oregonregencysociety.com/description.htm

 * Regency period is known for its elegant style
 * Regency social manners were all politeness and gentility
 * protocol for every social interaction
 * The social hierarchy was the core of everything
 * Women largely did not inherit wealth
 * Marriage was one of the few options to give her a secure future
 * A marriage based on love was barely ever an option for a regency woman
 * Income was the first consideration
 * Napoleonic wars raged during this time
 * War of 1812

Source #7: http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~awoodley/regency/legalwomen.html

 * All property within marriage legally belonged to the husband
 * Husband and wife were one person by law
 * The legal existence of the wife was suspended and incorporated into the personality of her husband
 * A husband could though, leave his property in his will to the wife
 * The wife could not acquire the land until the husband had passed away, if he left it in his will

Classes:

 * Highest orders : 2,880 family members
 * Second class : 234,305 family members
 * Third class : 112,200 family members
 * Fourth class : 1,168,250 family members
 * Fifth class : 2,798,475 family members
 * Sixth class : 8,792,800 family members
 * Seventh class : 16,165,803 family members
 * Army : 69,000 family members
 * Navy : 862,000 family members


 * Highest orders : royal family, lords, spiritual and temporal, great officers of state, peers above the degree of a baronet
 * Second class : baronets, knights, country gentleman, others with large incomes
 * Third class : clergy, doctors, merchants and manufacturers on a large scale, bankers
 * Fourth class : lesser clergy, doctors, lawyers, teachers ship owners, merchants and manufacturers of the second class, shopkeepers, artists, builders, mechanics, persons of moderate incomes
 * Fifth class : lesser freeholders, shopkeepers, innkeepers, publicans, persons in miscellaneous occupations
 * Sixth class : working mechanics, artists, craftsman, agricultural laborers
 * Seventh class : paupers, vagrants, gypsies, idle persons supported by criminal activity
 * Army/Navy : officers, including half pay non commissioned officers, soldiers, seamen, marines, pensioners

Her works-

 * Sense & Sensibility (1811)
 * Pride & Prejudice (1813)
 * Mansfield Park (1814)
 * Emma (1815)
 * Persuasion (1817)
 * Northanger Abby (1817)
 * (2 later novels after death)


 * She never married (uncommon for women in her time period)
 * No kids
 * Each book highly regarded for their clear message and colorful cast of characters
 * her actual life and interactions benefited her writing
 * remains one of the most well-known and liked authors

Authors like her-


 * Elizabeth Gaskell
 * Louisa May Alcott
 * Wilkie Collins
 * Anthony Trollope
 * Charles Dickens
 * Maria Edgeworth
 * Frances Burney

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