Answer:
C. Marriage was the only means for women to gain social mobility.
Explanation:
Jane Austen's time is the 1600s where women had very limited professional development. In such a very patriarchal society, women were inferior and their only chance at improving their status in life was marrying a man of certain stature; although marriages were still arranged then. They had no voice of their own and they were not even allowed to vote.
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