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Pride and Prejudice / Survival Anxiety

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: social status, gender roles, inheritance, family duty, emotional despair  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-28

Let us flatter ourselves that _I_ may be the survivor.” This was not very consoling to Mrs. Bennet; and, therefore, instead of making any answer, she ...
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Pride and Prejudice / Wealth and Matrimony

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: social status, marriage, wealth, desire, class  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-19

Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Financial Stability

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg)  | Themes: debt, credit, social status, economic pressures, identity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-19

I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far as we have been able to ascertain, amount to £ 88 10_s_., while he has £ 220 standing to ...
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Frankenstein / Marriage and Society

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: social status, gender roles, love and age, personal relationships  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-06

The pretty Miss Mansfield has already received the congratulatory visits on her approaching marriage with a young Englishman, John Melbourne, Esq. You...
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Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics Revealed

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: miscommunication, social status, emotional restraint, gossip  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

Darcy speaking to her.” “Ay, because she asked him at last how he liked Netherfield, and he could not help answering her; but she said he seemed very ...
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Pride and Prejudice / Social Games

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: age, social status, gender roles, vulnerability, propriety  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-02

“You cannot be more than twenty, I am sure,--therefore you need not conceal your age.” “I am not one-and-twenty.” When the gentlemen had joined them, ...
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Pride and Prejudice / Marriage and Agency

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: social status, individual agency, marriage, pride, societal expectations  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-20

I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of...