摘　要

简•奥斯汀被公认为19世纪最伟大的女作家。她一生有六部小说，大多基于婚姻讲述爱情。她的六部小说被普遍认为是英国第一个现代小说。本文先介绍作者和她三篇小说的背景。再分析三篇小说中截然不同的婚姻。最后探讨奥斯汀婚姻观的积极意义和局限性。它结合作者的观点，分析金钱和平等社会地位在婚姻中的重要性，揭示婚姻对现代女性的意义。且本文结合她人生经历概括她的婚姻观。小说包含女性独有的智慧，细致的观察和内心独特情感生动的描绘她的小世界，特别是男女间的婚姻和爱情困扰。随着时间推移，即使现在奥斯汀的婚姻观仍值得我们深度研究。

关键词：简•奥斯汀；婚姻观；女性

Abstract

Jane Austen is wildly considered to be one of the greatest female writer in the19th century. She wrote six novels through her life, most of them tell a love story based on marriage. Her six novels are generally considered to be the first modern novel of British. At that time, Austen vividly revealed the class relationships, social customs and morals, which is fundamental reason for the formation of the Austen’s view on marriage. This paper first introduces some backgrounds about the author and her three main novels. The major part of this paper mainly analyzes the different marriages in Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion. It finally approaches the positive meanings and limitations of Austen’s view on marriage. This paper combines Austen’s own views on marriage in her novels to analyze the importance of money and equal social status in a marriage, and intends to reveal the significance of marriage for the modern women.What’s more, this paper combines her life experience in order to summarize her outlook of marriage. Her novels contains a kind of wisdom only be owned by women, her meticulous observation and the inner depth of emotion vividly depicted the small world around Austen, especially the marriage and love disturbances among ladies and gentlemen. As time goes on, Austen’s marital outlook is still well worth our deep consideration even today. All in all, this paper gives young person a more reasonable concept of marriage.

Key words: Jane Austen; views on marriage; women

1 Introduction
In the history of female literature, Jane Austen is a remarkable woman in the literary area. She has made a pioneering effort. After reading the six novels of Jane Austen, readers could find the contents from her several works were not the same, but the themes were almost consistent, that was love and marriage. The story of her novels and the behavior of the characters develop around marriage. With her own unique experience and feeling, she supports a sky in female writing. To some extent, Austen uses her special perspective of female to show that women’s right view on marriage at her times. This paper mainly revolved around the different marriages in Austen’s works and summarized Austen’s view on marriage.