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where her father was a rector. She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight. The first 25 years of her life,Austen spent in Hampshire. She was tutored at home. Her parents were avid readers and she received a broader education than many women of her time. On her father‘s retirement, the family moved to Bath..
Pride and Prejudice (1813年)
◆ Jane Austen began her second novel, Pride and Prejudice, before she was twenty-one. It was originally titled First Impression because the appearances of the characters created the plot of the novel.
Major Works
Sense and Sensibility Mansfield Park Emma Pride and Prejudice Northhanger Abbey Persuasion
《理智与情感》 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》 《爱玛》 《傲慢与偏见》 《诺桑觉寺》 《劝导》
◆However, because the novel is also concerned with the effects of the character's first impressions, that is their prejudice, Jane found the title Pride and Prejudice more appropriate. In Georgian England, Mrs. Bennet raises her five daughters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia with the purpose of getting married with a rich husband that can support the family. They are not from the upper class, and their house in Hartfordshire will be inherited by a distant cousin if Mr. Bennet dies.
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• From her point of view, happy marriage= love + wealth + equal social status. Love is the basis; enough wealth and equal social status are necessary.
Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire,
middle-class provincial life with humor and understanding. She depicted the life of minor landed gentry, country clergymen and their families, in which marriage mainly determined women's social status.
Emma Woodhouse, aged 20 at the start of the novel, is a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman in Regency England. She lives on the fictional estate of Hartfield in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her elderly widowed father, a hypochondriac who is excessively concerned for the health and safety of his loved ones. Emma's friend and only critic is the gentlemanly George Knightley, her neighbor from the adjacent estate of Donwell, and the brother of her elder sister Isabella's husband.
Of her six great novels, four were published anonymously during her lifetime.
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At her death on July 18, 1817 in Winchester, Austen was writing the unfinished Sanditon. Austen was buried in Winchester Cathedral.
However , in the last few years of her life , her view on social status changed . It was not as important to her as before . Some marriages in her novels were not equal in social status then .
When the wealthy bachelor Mr. Bingley and his best friend Mr. Darcy arrive in town to spend the summer in a mansion nearby their property, the shy and beautiful Jane falls in love for Mr. Bingley, and Lizzie finds Mr. Darcy a snobbish and proud man, and she swears to loathe him forever. This is the beginning of their wonderful love story.
As the novel opens, Emma has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her best friend and former governess. Having introduced Miss Taylor to her future husband, Mr. Weston, Emma takes credit for their marriage, and decides that she rather likes matchmaking.
Austen focused on
◆Most important for her were those little matters, as Emma says, "on which the daily happiness of private life depends."
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Although Austen restricted to family matters, and she passed the historical events of the Napoleonic wars, her wit and observant narrative touch has been inexhaustible delight to readers.
Jane Austen
(1775-1817)
Outline
1.Her Life 2. Love Experience 3.Major Works
4.FamousSentencesHer Life
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
◆ An English writer, who first gave the novel its modern character, through the treatment of everyday life.
Emma
(1815年)
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a comic novel about the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively 'comedy of manners' among her characters.
VIEW ON LOVE
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In Jane Austen’s view , social status was not as essential as money , but was more important in the happiness of everybody life . It affected the possibility of a marriage .