Pride and Prejudice

Austen never married, and had no contact with the London literary circle; she, nevertheless, elevated her life, - a"little world of struggling clerical families, husband-hunting mothers and daughters, eligible clergymen and landowners, country fools and snobs" - into an enduring microcosm of the great world through her writings, and her "satirical wit and brilliant comedy, complex and subtle view of human nature, ...and unobtrusive perfection of style."