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Female status in Northanger Abbey I have ever seen Pride and Prejudice and I also have ever read Sense and Sensibility Both them are written by Jane Austin a famous English writer in 19th century And at this time I read Northanger Abbey too Austin s novels didn t have the significant social problem but had the peace village scenery of describing with her exquisite pen point She truly described the small world around her especially among ladies of marriage and love by women s unique meticulous observation and Represented the English countryside middle class daily life and rural scenery which has not been impacted by the capitalist Industrial Revolution This essay is trying to apply the Jane Austin s heroine to analyze the female status in 18th century and the increasing of female status after the Industrial Revolution It consist of two parts The women s status in 18th century Maybe Jane Austin was good at creating characters when she wrote novels She can describe her lifelike character with vivid conversation and interesting plot In her work the heroines had a common characteristics that is they are beautiful virtuous endearing but poor Numbers are a part that can t be ignored in Austin s novels Almost her all works fill in them such as earning heritage and so on So does Northanger Abbey In this novel it relates to the problem of property anywhere General Tilney the hero s father married with the hero s mother for her money John thought that he will married with Catherine so he exaggerated Catherine s property and caused that General Tilney had an excess of enthusiasm to Catherine and also let his son henry ingratiate her when General Tilney knew that she is not rich he droved her away at once so snobbish On the other hand it is an obvious reflection to the relationship between money and marriage for most of people especially the nobility without property at that time Austin put heroine in the patriarchal society and observed them and we can see that people s value based on the ownership of property Women are at a stage of disadvantage from the start can only obey the man and the so called law because the male heirs got the property from generation to generation I have an expressive situation when I saw Northanger Abbey when Catherine Morland and Mrs Allen joined the ball at the first time they didn t know any person but if no person or father recommended them to others they can t talk with anybody Absolutely that is a severely restriction for women The increasing of the women status As we all know Britain was the country which the first carried out Industrial Revolution in the world And Jane Austin lived in these years at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution Industrial Revolution not only had led to the social productive force s but also had aroused social life s all sides While Industrial Revolution brought about powerful productivity it had also aroused society family s change all these had significant effect to Britain woman Though at Industrial Revolution s initial period most woman were confined within the family what all of knowing to them was few But be accompanying the industrialization and the development of politics s democratization a lot of woman had began to go out of their family and walked into the external world They had become the independent laborer and could earned wage by themselves In the process they had been striving for the equal right with male women s social position also improved Austin s novel appeared in the 19th century opposed the romanticism trend inherited and developed the 18th century English realistic tradition and prepared for the climax of the 19th century realism fiction Although her works reflection was limited in breadth and depth but her work played a good role to change the vulgar culture in novel creation and had the essential meaning in the history of the development of English novels In her hand the heroines became more and more vivid their status and view of marriage was revealed Nowadays there are more and more female writer and the status of women is higher and higher With the unremitting endeavor of human beings in hundred years the female status increased day by day Today laws recognized the status of female women also can enjoy the inherit