Story as true today as it always was

JANE Austen's novels offer as much social commentary now as they did in the 1810s.

- BY AIMEE WALSH

The writer focused on the need of a woman in those times to marry to ensure economic security and social standing.

Anybody who has ever been single and received a wedding invitation will feel an affinity with her humorous takedown of the pursuit of coupledom to get by in society.