![]() ![]() ![]() Bennet’s cousin, a man the family had never met, would also inherit Longbourn House, their family home. Bennet the situation was made even more galling knowing that Mr. Unless they married well, they will be left destitute. Bennet’s will that only a male heir can inherit his estate, none of the Bennet girls will receive any of their father’s money. ![]() Bennet’s determination to marry her daughters off to practically any eligible (and unknown) man who happened to stop by the neighborhood. 11).Īs the plot of Pride and Prejudice unfolds, one starts to sympathize with silly Mrs. He was the king in check, his freedom of manoeuvre limited by a peculiarly English system of inheritance, the strict settlement (English & Saville, 1983, p. His interests were subordinate to those of the family, and the family was of more importance than he was. He was the life tenant, in possession of the family capital but unable to deal with his estates as if he owned them outright. The squire of a great country house, in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, standing on his terrace looking out across his broad acres, was rarely the owner of his land or even his house. ![]() In Jane Austen’s era, families with inherited money were considered to have a higher class and social standing than a family that lived on an income gained through hard work and labor. The Bennet sisters of Pride and Prejudice were considered gentlewomen because their father, having inherited money, did not have to work for a living. ![]()
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