Anna's Reviews > Jane Fairfax

If you're an Austen fan, you know that Jane Fairfax ends up with Frank Churchhill. So in reading this you might expect to understand the how or why of that relationship. This story doesn't really make your root for the 2 of them to be together. There is no sense of rightness to the relationship like you might get with Emma and Mr. Knightly or Lizzy and Mr. Darcy. The only really redeeming part of the relationship is that it saves Jane from a life as a governess. This isn't to say that Jane is not a sympathetic character, she is. It is really Frank that is underdeveloped as a character. If anything this novel does a nice job of portraying how bleak life was for women who didn't have money for a dowry, regardless of their beauty or intelligence.