Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice

In the late 1700s and early 1800s, education was strictly a man’s world. According to Debra Teachman in her article Women’s Education and Moral Conduct, Teachman states that “Women… had no schools of recognized academic excellence available to them and were ineligible for university attendance because of their sex” (Teachman 109). For Elizabeth Bennet, the main character in Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice, she prided herself on her intelligence versus that of her sisters and most men in the society. In Teachman’s article, she draws many parallels between the views of authors of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, and the actions and beliefs in Pride and Prejudice. Mr. Bennet would most likely agree most with William Alexander.