Guided reading path
Marriage, Money and Social Pressure
Six works reveal how affection is shaped by inheritance, debt, reputation, property, custody and the unequal terms of domestic life.
Who this is for
Readers interested in courtship and marriage plots as economic and ethical structures rather than simple romances.
Suggested rhythm
About 4 hours a week
Use the weekly plan as a guide, not a deadline. Progress is saved on this device.
The sequence
6 steps, each with a reason
- 01
Week 1
Not startedPersuasion
Begin with constancy, family pressure and the consequences of an earlier financial judgment.
Jane Austen · B2–C1 · 7 hr0% - 02
Week 4
Not startedThe Awakening
Move from courtship to the competing claims of marriage, art and selfhood.
Kate Chopin · B1–B2 · 6 hr0% - 03
Week 7
Not startedThe House of Mirth
See the marriage market become an explicit system of credit, status and exclusion.
Edith Wharton · B2–C1 · 12 hr0% - 04
Week 10
Not startedThe Age of Innocence
Watch an entire social group enforce a marriage through taste, timing and coordinated silence.
Edith Wharton · B2–C1 · 9 hr0% - 05
Week 13
Not startedThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Make earnings, movement and child protection visible inside a coercive marriage.
Anne Brontë · B2–C1 · 15 hr0% - 06
Week 16
Not startedA Doll’s House
Finish with three acts in which a private loan makes the legal and emotional terms of marriage visible.
Henrik Ibsen · A2–B1 · 3 hr0%
When you finish
You will have a working map, not just a list of titles.
Full-text reading updates automatically. For books read in another edition, mark that step complete yourself.