The role of the family Jane and Sense

Elinor and her mother

Elinor was a councellor to her mother

Marianne and her mother

They encouraged eachother in the violence of their afflictions

Elinor coverng for Marianne

Marianne was silent. Upon Elinor the task of telling lies where propriety demanded it fell”

Elinor comforting

Elinor was the comforter of others in her own distress

Lucy Steele and her sister like mariannea dn elinor

Lucy seemed to think an apology neccesary for the freedom of her sister

Inheritence for the ferrars quote (dependance, money and family)

“To make one son independent when another has wronged me”

Mrs Jennings acting in loco parentus for Elinor (love)

“Mrs Jennings with a kindness of heart that made Elinor really love her”

Marianne happiness for Elinor (love and family)

Marianne could only speak through tears - as sincere as her happiness for her sister

Ending and how the sisters are depicted by the end

There was constant communication between barton and delaford let it not be ranked the least considerable

AO3 for family

• Primogeniture

• Bronte living with her sisters

• Post marriage for both eras - a woman would often be isolated from her family - her hsuband was the focus of her life now.

• Mothers often had domestic power (Georgian)

• The role of the family in the Victorian era is very very strong & Jane is disadvanaged without one

• Orphans

Jane on wanting a sister

You cannot imagine the craving I have for sisterly love

Jane helen burns

I must see helen burns

Jane’s found family at Gateshead

Better a dinner of herbs than a stalled ox therein

Jane upon discovering her newfound family

I had found a brother and two sisters I could truly love! this was wealth indeed

Adele/Celine Varenes quote - good to show detachment of family

Adele is not answerable for her mothers faults

Jane talking about the rivers family

such a family for being united

John Mullan talking about the sisters relationship

there are only 5 meaningful conversations had between the sisters in the novel

Brownstein talking about the ending and how austen dwells onthe sisterly bond

austen gives the girl’s attachments to eachother pride of place making their seocndary attachments seem merely secondary

John Reed’s words at jane

you are a dependant; your father left you nothing

Mrs Reed to Jane

She drew a marked line of seperation between me adn her children

Critic (katherine limmer) about hte significance of a carriage - linking back to Elinor and her mther

austen draws attention to the detrimental impacts the lack of a carriage has for the girls.