Music played a deeply significant part in the writers' lives of Isabelle de Charrière and Jane Austen. Each of them refers to it as novelist in order to signify the woman condition. In their novels, music illustrates both the entrapment of social performance and the need for individual freedom and sincerity. At the critical level, analysing the meaning of music in their works serves as an interesting entry into a much needed comparison between two novelists whom time, space, and language usually keep apart from one another.