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Which Jane Austen heroine most embodies feminist principles?

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What a great question! It's important to remember that these are very young women, mostly 17-20 years old, most of whom had no realistic choice for a life path other than marriage, so perhaps it's unfair to judge them too severely, but let's take a look and see what we find. read more

Mansfield Park and Persuasion are the novels most often cited as examples of Austen's growing religiosity. For example, Persuasion "is subtly different from the laxer, more permissive social atmosphere of the three novels Jane Austen began before 1800." and contains more frequent references to Providence. read more

feminist is Margaret Kirkham’s Jane Austen, Feminism and Fiction (1983), which argues that Austen dramatizes the concerns of feministic enlightenment of her day like Mary Wollstonecraft. Later there are more books on this topic. It is Susan S. Lanser who is the first to study Jane Austen by combining feminism and narratology. read more

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