Pride and Prejudice & Mary Wollstonecraft on Education Through the works of Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice it is shown that education for women was not important or a priority at all during the Romantic Period; those who did get some form of education was nothing compared to the education that men and boys received. These texts address what the value of education means to women, it questions why a man is qualified to make the decisions about a women's education, and how a women's education should benefit her more than her husband or father. In the seventh chapter of Pride and Prejudice Jane sends Lizzy a note from Netherfield explaining that she is not well enough to return home; due to the private nature of the message and having knowledge that there was discretion in writing it by …show more content…
The consequences are similar; soldiers acquire a little superficial knowledge, snatched from the muddy current of conversation, and, from continually mixing with society, they gain, what is termed a knowledge of the world; and this acquaintance with manners and customs has frequently been confounded with a knowledge of the human heart."(pg. 220). So in other words it is perfectly fine for women to have little to no education but in turn needs to be able to run a household, cook meals, and raise children, but with what knowledge can they use to care for sick children when the doctor is two towns away or to know how to deal with money in order to buy food to cook meals. This logic makes as much sense as sending young soldiers into a war with little knowledge about the enemy or how to properly to use and clean their