Jane Austen was a British novelist in the early 19th century whose work was ignored for much of the century but later established as important literature. She wrote six novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, and lived a short life. Her work was initially written to entertain her family, and she received a marriage proposal but rejected it for love. Her novels are precise and witty character studies and form an integral part of the literary canon.
Jane Austen was an early 19th-century British novelist, who received much posthumous praise for her novels. Her work was ignored for much of the 19th century. Interest in the 1800s clearly established her novels as an important part of the literary canon or “must read” material for those who study literature.
His novels are tightly constructed, comic works that delicately mock the limited sphere in which he lived, the middle class of England in the early 1800s. He completed six novels in his lifetime: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park , Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. The last two novels were written before Emma and published posthumously.
Jane Austen lived a quiet and short life in England. Born in 1775, Jane Austen only lived until 1817. Her major works were composed during the first decade of the 1800s. She began writing when she was 13 or 14, and some of her adore her collection of early writings her.
Jane Austen clearly wrote to entertain her family in her early work. She received a better education than most women and was inspired to study the most important subjects in which her brother excelled.
Jane Austen had six brothers and one sister. She was particularly close to her sister Cassandra, mirroring the relationship between Jane and Elizabeth in her novel Pride and Prejudice. Her letters to Cassandra are available for review on the Internet and at the Jane Austen Museum located in Bath, England.
Much like Mr. Collins’ marriage proposal to Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice (P&P) Jane Austen received a marriage proposal in 1802 from a “heavy” man, Harris Bigg-Wither. She initially accepted, then rejected the offer. She wouldn’t have married for anything less than love and she wouldn’t have become P&P’s Charlotte Lucas who married an “obnoxious” man to avoid poverty. Some critics suggest that Charlotte is Austen’s argument for rejecting Bigg-Winter.
Jane Austen did not find love and was forced to accept support and guidance from her family. She started writing novels, to partially earn her way. However, like any real woman of the time, she was known to hide her writings under blotting paper in case of guests arriving, as it was considered almost indecent to be a writer. Her work was published anonymously, in keeping with the “decent” behavior of the time.
He has received praise and censure for his works from other writers. Both Mark Twain and Charlotte Bronte thought her novels were unhappy. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lionel Trilling were fans of her, and Virginia Woolf referred to Jane Austen as a “incandescent” writer.
Jane Austen lived in a limited sphere of English society and exemplifies the “write what you know” philosophy of composition. Her works are limited to understanding the world, although her latest novel, Emma, explores society a little more and is considered by many critics to be her greatest work. Her novels differ from much of Romantic period writing in that they celebrate neither nature nor naturalness as was common to her contemporaries such as Wordsworth.
Readers find Pride and Prejudice to be Jane Austen’s most accessible work, and it has been adapted into two films. The 1940s version stars Laurence Olivier as Darcy, and the other in 2005 stars Keira Knightly. Two miniseries adhere closely to the book. The 1980s BBC version starring Elizabeth Garvey and David Rintoul is the most faithful production. The 1990s series with Jennifer Erhle and Colin Firth is the most admired.
The best known film adaptation of Sense and Sensibility was written by the actor, Emma Thompson who also starred in the work. It’s a fairly faithful production and appeals to most Jane Austen fans. Mansfield Park and Persuasion have been adapted into both film and miniseries several times, and Emma was wonderfully parodied in the 1990s film Clueless.
Austen’s greatness as an author is found less in the films, but more in her actual work. Her studies of her characters are precise and witty. One can still find representations of such characters in ordinary modern life. Jane Austen’s novels form an integral part of the literary canon and should be studied by all who are considering the novel as an art form.
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