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There were no hidden messages or alternate meanings for this one. Austen told her the only reason she should ever marry someone was for love. She expressed, “And now, my dear Fanny, having written so much on one side of the question, I shall turn round and entreat you not to commit yourself farther, and not to think of accepting him unless you really do like him. Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection” (2). She wanted Fanny to be happy. Austen knew what it was like to love someone and lose them. Austen was proposed to by a family friend and accepted but the next day turned him down because she did not love him. She did not want Fanny to have to go through the same loss.
Austen expressed her feelings of marriage to her niece knowing what society at the time expected of women. Fanny should under no circumstances ever marry without having loved the man. During that time period almost everyone was getting married for every reason but love, for
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example money. In this letter to Fanny she shows it is okay to question society and stray from
the
Austen expressed her feelings of marriage to her niece knowing what society at the time expected of women. Fanny should under no circumstances ever marry without having loved the man. During that time period almost everyone was getting married for every reason but love, for
Taylor 3
example money. In this letter to Fanny she shows it is okay to question society and stray from
the