Life does not hold out much pleasure for either Elizabeth or Elinor: Elizabeth in love with a man of whom her overbearing mother does not approve Elinor in love with the man Mrs Hartley is determined Elizabeth shall marry. Coincidentally with a social visit by the awesome Lady Charlotte however the prospects of both girls are made much brighter - through the machinations of the quiet Miss Jane who is dismissed as a person of no consequence by Lady Charlotte when she is told her surname - Miss Austen.8 women