The savvy socialite Mary Crawford sums  this up in "Mansfield Park;" “I would have everybody marry  if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people  throw themselves away.” Unsurprisingly, these themes were also  present in Austen’s personal life.
Dobro upućena pripadnica visokog društva Mary Crawford sažima to u romanu „Mansfield Park”: „Ja bih da se svi vjenčaju ako će to napraviti kako Bog zapovijeda: ne sviđa mi se kad se ljudi upropaste.” Ne čudi što su te teme prisutne i u Austeninu privatnom životu.