Tag: Social classes — Fiction
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Jane Austen-Pride and Prejudice-Chapter Two
CHAPTER II. [Illustration] Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley. Hehad always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring hiswife that…
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Jane Austen-Pride and Prejudice-Chapter Three
CHAPTER III. Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her fivedaughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from herhusband any satisfactory description of Mr.…
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Jane Austen-Pride and Prejudice-Chapter One
Chapter I.] It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possessionof a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or…
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Jane Austen-Sense and Sensibility-Chapter Two
CHAPTER II. Mrs. John Dashwood now installed herself mistress of Norland; and hermother and sisters-in-law were degraded to the condition of visitors.As such, however, they were treated by her with…
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Jane Austen-Sense and Sensibility-Chapter Three
CHAPTER III. Mrs. Dashwood remained at Norland several months; not from anydisinclination to move when the sight of every well known spot ceasedto raise the violent emotion which it produced…
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Jane Austen-Sense and Sensibility-Chapter One
CHAPTER I. The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estatewas large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre oftheir property, where, for many…