Austen’s Familial Relationships of Parents and Children

Jane Austen wrote social novels concerning just three or four families in a country of rural England. She examined in detail their ways of life, their social circle, their individual traits and their behavior towards each other. A study of the family pattern is of paramount importance for the understanding of Jane Austen‟s novels. In this study of her three most popular works, we shall try and understand the different ways parents and children relate to each other in the then society.