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Jane Austen
Jane Austen was a major English novelist, who marks the transition in English literature from 18th century neo-classicism to 19th century romanticism.
Jane Austen was born on 16December, 1775, at the rectory in the village of Steventon, in Hampshire. The seventh of eight children of the Reverend George Austen and his wife, Cassandra, she was educated mainly at home. From her oldersister, Cassandra, she was inseparable. Since she was little, Jane was encouraged to write. The reading that she did of the books in her father's extensive library provided material for the shortsatirical sketches she wrote as a girl.
At the age of 14 she wrote her first novel, Love and Freindship and then A History of England by a partial, prejudiced and ignorant Historian. In her earlytwenties Jane Austen wrote the novels that were later to be re-worked and published as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey. She also began a novel called The Watsons which wasnever completed.
As a young woman Jane enjoyed dancing and she attended balls in many of the great houses of the neighbourhood. She loved the country, enjoyed long country walks, and had manyHampshire friends. In 1801 that the family would be moving away to Bath. After her father's death in 1805, his widow and daughters also suffered financial difficulties and were forced to rely on the charityof the Austen sons. It was also at this time that Jane fell in love, and when the young man died, she was deeply upset. Later she accepted a proposal of marriage from Harris Bigg-Wither, a wealthylandowner, but she changed her mind the next morning.
In July, 1809, the Austen ladies moved back to their beloved Hampshire countryside. It provided the settled home which Jane Austen needed in orderto write. In the seven and a half years that she lived in this house, she revised Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice and published them. Then Mansfield Park came out in 1814, followed...
Jane Austen was a major English novelist, who marks the transition in English literature from 18th century neo-classicism to 19th century romanticism.
Jane Austen was born on 16December, 1775, at the rectory in the village of Steventon, in Hampshire. The seventh of eight children of the Reverend George Austen and his wife, Cassandra, she was educated mainly at home. From her oldersister, Cassandra, she was inseparable. Since she was little, Jane was encouraged to write. The reading that she did of the books in her father's extensive library provided material for the shortsatirical sketches she wrote as a girl.
At the age of 14 she wrote her first novel, Love and Freindship and then A History of England by a partial, prejudiced and ignorant Historian. In her earlytwenties Jane Austen wrote the novels that were later to be re-worked and published as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey. She also began a novel called The Watsons which wasnever completed.
As a young woman Jane enjoyed dancing and she attended balls in many of the great houses of the neighbourhood. She loved the country, enjoyed long country walks, and had manyHampshire friends. In 1801 that the family would be moving away to Bath. After her father's death in 1805, his widow and daughters also suffered financial difficulties and were forced to rely on the charityof the Austen sons. It was also at this time that Jane fell in love, and when the young man died, she was deeply upset. Later she accepted a proposal of marriage from Harris Bigg-Wither, a wealthylandowner, but she changed her mind the next morning.
In July, 1809, the Austen ladies moved back to their beloved Hampshire countryside. It provided the settled home which Jane Austen needed in orderto write. In the seven and a half years that she lived in this house, she revised Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice and published them. Then Mansfield Park came out in 1814, followed...
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