• Marriage

In December 1802 Jane Austen received her first proposal of marriage but she did not accept! Until the second proposal.

• The role of a women

Women in them days had a role that they had to get married to a wealthy man and give him lots of children.  I find this horrible as their life is planned out for them and they had no say.

• Polite society

Polite society means that everyone was polite to everyone.  Janes writing style was very posh and polite.  She often write about the rich victorians in big houses. She was not known for writing about the poor or workhouses.

• Victorian era 

When Jane was a young child reading was a joy and fun! Although it was not popular as the books were very expensive then. But people did pass the books on to others and the help of libraries and book clubs were useful to get your hands on a good book.

I found this research very interesting especially the role of women and that books were expensive.

Jane accepted her 2nd proposal from an old friend’s brother in late 1802. 

•A woman's role in the Victorian Era

The woman's role was to get married to a wealthy man and give him lots of children to carry on his family name. 

•Focus on Polite Society

Jane’s writing style was about wealthy societies where people had privileges like huge houses and not much work. 

•Living in the Victorian Era

When Jane was young reading a book was good entertainment. The books she read were expensive and hard to get your hands on. 

In the victorian era families were usually large, in 1870 many families had five or six children.

What did child call his/her father?

Each member of the family had their own role and children were taught to "know their place" and "be seen and not heard". They called their fathers 'sir'.

Who did the house work in rich people’s houses?

Polite society

The words leg and trousers were curse words in the victorian times .

Jane Austin 

Jane Austin was born  in the south of England on the 16th day of December 1722.

The role of women

Wives, daughters and sisters were left at home all day to oversee the domestic duties that were increasingly carried out by servants. From the 1830s, women started to adopt the crinoline, a huge bell-shaped skirt that made it virtually impossible to clean a grate or sweep the stairs without falling over.

Marrige 

 In the Victorian, marriage was seen mainly as bringing up ones status, people didn't marry for love they married for money. In this case, Victorians kept marriage between family members to keep the wealth there. Throughout many Victorian works this trend in seen often. .

About Jane Austen 

Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 in the village of Steventon in Hampshire. She was one of eight children of a clergyman and grew up in a close-knit family. She began to write as a teenager. In 1801 the family moved to Bath. After the death of Jane's father in 1805 Jane, her sister Cassandra and their mother moved several times eventually settling in Chawton, near Steventon.

Jane Austen's books 

Jane's brother Henry helped her negotiate with a publisher and her first novel, 'Sense and Sensibility', appeared in 1811. Her next novel 'Pride and Prejudice', which she described as her "own darling child" received highly favourable reviews. 'Mansfield Park' was published in 1814, then 'Emma' in 1816. 'Emma' was dedicated to the prince regent, an admirer of her work. All of Jane Austen's novels were published anonymously.

Jane Austens marriage 

 On 2 December 1802, when Jane and her sister were visiting Manydown House in Hampshire, Harris Bigg-Wither, the 21-year old younger brother of Jane’s friends Alethea and Catherine, proposed marriage to her—and was accepted. Jane was 6 years older than Harris, and a good deal cleverer, but they had known each other a long time, and he must have had some encouragement from her in the months or years before popping the question, or he wouldn’t have dared ask. And she said yes, after all: There might have been plenty of mutual regard, even love.

But after what must have been an agonizing night of second thoughts, Jane left Manydown abruptly and in confusion, having broken off her very short engagement.   

The role of the women 

It would very much depend on their social status. Women of the upper and upper middle classes (Jane Austen herself was at the lower edge of the upper class) would generally expect to stay at home until they married, and after married would be busy raising a family and running a household. They would normally have servants to do most of the housework, so their role would be mainly supervisory. They would be expected to manage the family budget. They might have a large family (Jane Austen was one of nine children for instance), and would be expected to give the children their first lessons, teaching them to read etc. Boys would eventually have a tutor or go away to boarding school, and girls might have a governess or go away to school, or just continue to be educated at home by their mothers.

Death and illness 

In 1816, Jane began to suffer from ill-health, probably due to Addison's disease. She travelled to Winchester to receive treatment, and died there on 18 July 1817. Two more novels, 'Persuasion' and 'Northanger Abbey' were published posthumously and a final novel was left incomplete.