According to the opening of Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice,an eighteenth-century English woman's main prospect was

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The opening line of Pride and Prejudice famously states, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." This sets the stage for the novel's central focus on marriage as the primary prospect for women in eighteenth-century England. While independent wealth and writing were possible pursuits for some women, they were not as widely available or socially acceptable as marriage. Servitude was generally seen as a lower status occupation for women.

According to the Opening of Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice,an