Famous 19th century woman novelist – Jana Austen. She wrote about the world of women in gentcel rural society which encouraged women to look for ‘good’ marriages and find wealthy or propertied husbands. As the first sentence of Pride and Prejudice says, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Other women novelists did not simply popularise the domestic role of women. Their novels dealt with women who broke established norms of society before adjusting to them. Such novels allowed women readers to sympathise with rebellions actions. Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre young Jane as independent and assertive. At the often gave protests against the hypoon of her elders with startling bluntness. He tells her aunt, “People think you are a good woman but you are bad – You are deceitful I will never call you aunt as long as I live.”