Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” However, Jan Austen's words ring most true in the confined universe in which she lived, one that she recreates for her characters in Pride and Prejudice.

Unfortunately, the majority of her society does not think in the same way. This is immediately recognisable upon meeting Elizabeth's mother, the loud and loquacious Mrs Bennet, who is used by Jane Austen as a caricature of the many dim-witted and gaudy people that she finds so ...