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She wrote when Romanticism was in full flood but she belong to the 18th century in her mentality, education and moral values. Her best novels are "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility", set in middle-class England and based on simple plots, usually centred on love stories.

Limitation of her novels

Her works have some limits:

more or less the same plot;

she lacked on overall vision of the historical and social events of her time;

she was not interested in the literary movements and experiments of her time;

the world of her novels is restricted to provincial England only.

Great qualities of her novels

She recreats the trivialities of everyday life, made up of dinners trips and dances;

she is unique in creating living characters as the lower nobility and the middle-class;

she introduces into her works comments and judgements;

her novels show the restrictions of a woman's position in the 18th and 19th centuries, in which an unmarried woman was destined to the dule life of nursing old parents or looking after her relatives children;

she writes stories of domestic life without heroes or adventures;

she uses: an omniscient third-person narrator; dialogues and conversations for the revelation of  the characters; letter-writing; ironc wit; precise use of words.