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Emma Woodhouse in Emma is so rich she has no need to worry about marriage, but all the women around her economically thrive or flounder based on their marital choices. Since her family’s property is also entailed, she’ll need a mate able to support her according to her station. Anne Elliot is persuaded not to marry Captain Wentworth in Persuasion because he is a commoner and has no fortune. Elizabeth and her sisters in Pride and Prejudice must marry or face the prospect of poverty when their father dies because his property is entailed on a male relative.
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Women are driven to marry in her novels, not out of love – although her heroines are rewarded with it – but out of financial necessity. But I’d argue that while Austen’s books do have romance in them, they are actually about economics. I don’t think romantic love is a trivial subject considering how much time we spend looking for it in our lives and how satisfying (or deeply unsatisfying) it can be. While a lot of people love Jane Austen books and the movies based on them, many dismiss her work because there is romance involved.