mention of Jo Baker's novel. He takes us away from ideal fairy tale and portrays a bitter harsh realities of the lower class, which we tend to forget, while reading the novel, Pride and Prejudice. Therefore, the lives of the ruling class was dependent upon the hard work of the lower working class with meager lifestyle. In Longbourn, (on page 115) Jo Baker says:
Sarah lifted his chamber pot out from underneath the bed, and carried it out, her head turned aside so as to not confront its contents too closely. This, she reflected, as she crossed the rainy yard, and strode out to the necessary house, and slopped the pot’s contents down the hole, this was her duty, and she could find no satisfaction in it, and found it strange that anybody might think a person could. She rinsed the post out at the pump and left it to freshen in the rain. If this was her duty, then she wanted
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Bingley was interested not only in domestic and crop trade, but also slave trade, which executes the grounds for humanity. The narrative in the novel, also keeps on shifting to third person narrative from Polly (the scullery maid, victim to fiendish Wickham) to Mrs. Hill (who harbors deep secrets and disappointments) and our dirt poor gentleman who is always protecting the protagonist of this novel, the housemaid Sarah.
James Smith tends to offer the passionate love filled with adventures and struggles, which the modern readers crave to read:
“Here was James, now, with his hand wrapped around her arm, and his touch and his closeness and his voice pitched low and urgent, and it all seemed to matter, and it was all doing strange and pleasant things to her. She felt herself softening, and easing, like a cat luxuriating in a fire’s glow. And there was just now, just this one moment, when she teetered on the brink between the world she’d always known and the world beyond, and if she did not act now, then she would never