Proposals and Marriage in Jane Austen’s Novels

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Engagements and proposals are vital to Jane Austen’s world. Professor John Mullan, editor of the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Sense and Sensibility, discusses the conventions surrounding marriage and engagement in Jane Austen’s time and how that conventions are reflected in her work.

John Mullan is Professor of English at University College London. He has previously edited editions of Daniel Defoe's Roxana (2008) and Samuel Johnson's The Lives of the Poets for Oxford World's Classics. He is the author of What Matters in Jane Austen? (Bloomsbury, 2012), Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Faber & Faber, 2008), and How Novels Work (OUP, 2006).

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