Was Jane Austen ever relevant

We often Lord Jane Austen as the first main stream female success story in literature. But perhaps due to the time in which she lived it is very hard to examine her as a historical figure. Yes she wrote about the hypocrisy of the era between the rain George the third and the rain of William the fourth, but as the political movements that would inspire women in the world over in the 19th century we’re not at fruition Austin is alone on an island. She died the generation before temperance and abolition came to full force in Britain she did not know of a society where even most men could cast a vote for an election to the house of commons. Perhaps that’s what makes for literature as time tested as it is because she’s holding up a mirror to a society that cannot endure by any means. By the timer for deaf millions of an in franchise man lived in Glasgow EdinburghLiverpool Birmingham Manchester Cardiff Swansee Dublin and Belfast maybe the most important thing we can learn from Austin it’s not so much the difficulty of being a woman before property voting rights for granted to them although that is an important angle we should also consider that Austin is commenting on a society that had no staying power and was desperately in need of reform. I don’t think Austin was a wig or a liberal I do think she understood the society around her. And in that way the way she Challenges early 19th century prescriptions for how to be a woman how to love how to coexist in community and society I think that is her most enduring legacy. She foreshadowed an age she would not live to see one of tremendous industrial and political progress that would see abolition temperance and even universal enfranchisement come to pass she couldn’t see it but I think somewhere deep inside she know it’s coming and I think that is what we can learn from her.