At her middle-class core, Hallett writes, she wanted " a man who possessed charm and animal force as well as cash" -the perennial dream espoused most memorably in the fiction of Jane Austen.

哈利特写道，以中产阶级为核心，她想找一个“既魅力四射、野性十足，又多金”的伴侣——简·奥斯汀的小说中最令人记忆深刻的就是这个永恒的梦想。