The role of women in Sense and Sensibility
They were not allowed to
show their feelings and senses openly. When they did that, everybody gossiped and talked
about that slightingly.
The roles of women were keeping the house clean and raise the children. If they were in
the middle or lower class they had to cook, wash and clean, but if they were in the upper
class, there were servants for that. They did not just sit with doing nothing, always they
were backstitching or sewing or doing some other useful opusculum. Also they were
reading books and playing some kind of instrument or singing were was time for that.
There were many parties and balls where women did go with their husbands, escorts or
wooers. Also these were places, where many available young women and men met with
each other. Parties where plentiful and lavish, there were lot of gossip and scheming also.
For upper class, every day was bed and roses: handling their hobbies, picnics with friends,
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