![]() ![]() Austen wrote her sister: “At length the day is come on which I am to flirt my last with Tom Lefroy … My tears flow as I write this, at this melancholy idea." 2. Lefroy was soon engaged to a woman with a large fortune. “He is a very gentlemanlike, good-looking, pleasant young man, I assure you.” But Austen’s social status wasn’t high enough and Lefroy’s family separated the two lovebirds. “Imagine to yourself everything most profligate and shocking in the way of dancing and sitting down together,” she wrote to her sister Cassandra. Like a scene out of one of her novels, she flirted scandalously with him at a ball. At age 20, she had a flirtation with a young man named Tom Lefroy. ![]() This issue must have been fresh on the young author’s mind when she wrote the book. ![]() Pride and Prejudice is about young women of genteel poverty trying to find good marriage matches. Like her characters, Jane Austen was rejected for not being rich enough. Today, more than 200 years later, Pride and Prejudice remains Jane Austen’s most beloved novel. In the end, they are married in an ideal 19 th-century wedding of both love and money. Later, she discovers that he’s stinking rich. Boy proposes to girl and she refuses him. It’s a simple story: boy is rude to girl, girl dislikes boy. ![]()
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