How does the incipit of Pride and Prejudice legitimate the moral criticism of women's place in the Georgian society that it foreshadows as being the matter of the forthcoming narrative?

Abstract

Jane Austen's works occupy a central place in the early-19th century literature as it contributed to the link between the Enlightenment period, Romanticism, and Realism, to which she added feminism.

In the incipit of Pride and Prejudice, a work which was published in 1813, the narrator relates a conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. Mrs. Bennet informs that Mr. Bingley, a young and wealthy man, is soon to settle in a nearby house. She immediately thinks of marrying one of their daughters to this man but she faces her husband's sarcasm and mockery. Indeed, Mr. Bennet seems ironically not to feel very preoccupied by his daughter's future.