Are You Engaged to Him?

A different idea started to become more common in the 17 and 18 hundreds. Jane austen, the famous novelist, may well have been the trail blazer. In her book, pride and prejudice, mister darcy falls for elizabeth bennett of modest means. That throws his aunt into a rage. She says: "Do you think it can be prevented by a young woman of inferior birth? Heaven and earth are the shades of pemberley be thus polluted?" And so there was a prolonged period of time where men were more romantic than women in the courtship arena.