In my thesis I focus on a well-known novelist Jane Austen and
her classification in periods. The aim of this thesis is to
prove, to what extent should she be considered as a writer of
romanticism or, despite of the time anticoincidence, Victorian
era. By virtue of following particular elements in her novel
Pride and Prejudice, serving me as a support for my research,
and classifying the period, I also establish the aspects of her
uniqueness. This thesis is a view both on the society and
literature of the two periods watching the social changes and
mapping the influence of period and life of the author on her
literary production. How much is the fact of Pride and
Prejudice being the source of fantasy and the way how to escape
the daily routine or only the amusing description of what the
society really looked like is to be demonstrated too.