 The continuation is recognisably Victorian in its themes and attitudes to social class.Possibly the new focus on the economics of the penniless heroine’s situation could not have been adequately treated until this later date.In the opinion of Jane Austen’s great-nephew, William Austen-Leigh (1843 -1921), his aunt may have become aware of the difficulty "of having placed her heroine too low, in a position of poverty and obscurity…and therefore, like a singer who has begun on too low a note, she discontinued the strain."