Marriage was a crucial event in womens’ lives back then. Not marrying correctly or at all was an almost surefire route to poverty.
Yeah but that doesn’t mean I should have to suffer through their pointless discussions on it. Or actually that I even could. 60 pages in it was obvious there was no way I could ever finish that book, I was alternating between painfully bored and wishing I could punch the characters. It’s simply awful. There’s a reason why woman hating gay men like Austen so much, the characters deserve the hatred.