Jane Austen Research Paper

Jane Austen was an english writer of the Georgian era. Widely known for her novels; Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.

Jane Austen was born in Steventon Hampshire, England, December 16, 1775. Jane's mother and father, Cassandra and George Austen gave her and her siblings a good life. George Austen was an oxford-educated rector making £600 a year. That was enough to live on but they were not considered rich. Her parents stressed learning and creative thinking. The austen family were very close. Jane, her father and her sister became extremely close. Jane helped out with her family, chores, helping her mother and father. In her early adulthood she spent her time practicing the piano with her sister cassandra. She was a member of …show more content…
Her first mature work started at 19. Her and her sister were briefly taught by Mrs. Crawley, a sister of Janes uncles. They were sent home because of typhoid that was going threw england. Once they got over the illness the were sent to Abbey Boarding school of reading (1785-1786). The financial situation her parents were going through caused Jane and her sister to be taken out of school. Jane expanded her education threw her father's library. Jane did a lot of reading. She read novels and things from her time era. She read aloud to her family hwen she could some of her own writting and some of others. Once she caught ahold of literature she began to write in a journal that is now called ¨Janes Juvenilia¨. She loved to write parodies of famous books and short stories. She wrote a 34 page parody of historical writing. her writing had wit, and dislike of sensibility, or romantic hysteria, and a very distinct perspective. They say that her writing as ¨Bridged the gap between romance and …show more content…
Janes writing is a very distinctive style, using parody, irony, a degree of realism, comic effect and free indirect speech to portray women of the 18th-century. She didn't become popular till after her death, she became popular in 1869. The main characters reflect herself in all of her books, her dreams and hopes for the future. She wrote six completed novels and most of them became very popular and were turned into movies or tv shows. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Sanditon (unfinished ) are the six novels she completed and one unfinished. Sence and Sensibility was her first novel published in 1811. This book was written in the point of view of what it was like for a women in the early 18th century. Based off of Jane and her sister Cassandra, Jane wrote this book because she saw men and what purpose they really had or in her opinion. The book was called Elinor and marianne but changes later on to Sense and Sensibility. She later on wrote Pride and Prejudice. Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813. It became her most popular book she has written. It shows the genteel rural society of the early 18th century. Pride and Prejudice was named impressions but was later changed to Pride and Prejudice. The title means “among other things” giving the two main characters Elizabeth and Darcy, didn't meet on the right foot. both of

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