Whitley Henry: Chapter 8

This chapter helped me to understand the power by showing that women get there power from there husbands. When a women is not married she is of lower social class, than she would be if she was to be married. This just shows a very big part of the time period in which Jane Austen lived in. Women were very young when they were to be married and start families. Compared to today, when women more independent are assumed to wait until later in life after education to marry and begin a family.