Jane Austen purposely created three different mother figures in her novels Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion in order to exploit how mother figures influence their daughters. Mrs. Bennet is typically concerned with her financial status and how she can find wealthy men for her daughters to marry to ensure they are well-established in life. Instead of ordering her daughters to marry, Mrs. Dashwood is more relaxed and allows her daughters to find their own paths in life while she struggles with her own financial downfall. Lady Elliot depicts the mother figure who is always aware of her social standing and who believes she has Anne’s best interests in mind. Even though these three mother figures are vastly different at times, they are all based upon aspects that Austen saw in her own mother. The most important overlapping value that all three women share with Mrs. Austen is the goal to see their daughters happy. By creating such different women, Austen is allowing for a wider audience to appreciate her novels and to see that a mother’s top priority should be that of seeing her children happy.