Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Marriage

Author

Jane Austen

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Pride and Prejudice

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 22.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 22.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Individual Points." Ueber Kunst und Altersthum [On Art and Antiquity]. 1826, vol. 5, issue 3.

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Kennedy, Anthony. United States, Supreme Court. Obergefell v. Hodges. United States Reports, vol. 576, 26 June 2015, no. 14-556, pp. 644-742. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/576/14-556/.