43 Entailment and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice: Social Constraints and Gender
Entailment in “Pride and Prejudice” Entail (en-tail) – A restriction, especially of lands, by limiting the inheritance to the owner’s lineal descendants or to a particular class thereof. In Pride and Prejudice, the entailment was owning a piece of land that is kept in one family and made them more wealthy and of higher class. […]