Sparkling comedy of provincial manners concerns a well-intentioned young heiress and her matchmaking schemes that result in comic confusion for the inhabitants of a 19th-century English village. Droll characterizations of the well-intentioned heroine, her hypochondriacal father, plus many other finely drawn personalities makes this sparkling satire of provincial life one of Jane Austen’s finest novels.

This title is used in the Learning Language Arts Through Literature Gold British Literature study for high school.