ABSTRACT

 

 In this project I will talk about the life and the career of Jane Austen , we will see the life of this woman in a short biography. And I will speak about the most famous books of this woman how: Pride and Perjudice .

We will see how when Jane created his best books she was in Hampshire.

The project is formed by: biography. The project and conclusion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

   PROJECT

 

.Biography.

 

Jane Austen was born on December 16,1775, in the village of Steventon, Hampsire, where her father was rector.She was the seventh child in a boisterous family of six boys and two girls. Reading and playacting were favorite pastimes, and Austen began writing as a young girl. Her “Juvenilia” written between 1787 and 1795, survive in three notebooks and include “Lady Susan”, a short novel-in-letters. In1796 she complete another epistolary novel called”Elinor and Marianne”, later revised to become “Sense and Sensibility”. In 1797 she finished the first version of “Pride and prejudice”, called “First Impressions”.

“Northanger Abbey”, the last of the early novels, was written in 1798 or 1799 as “Susan”.

Until 1801, when her father retired and the family moved to Bath, Austen enjoyed a comfortable life, mixing in the best society in the neighborhood, keeping a carriage and a pair of horses, and attending dances at the stately homes of the local gentry. Neither nor her sister Cassandra married, but the reasons for this remain conjectural, as Cassandra burned or censored Austenīs surviving letters after her death. The eight years following the move from Steventon were evidently unsettled and unhappy ones. “The Watsons”, her only writing from this period, was never completed. But from 1809, when settled again in her beloved Hampshire, until her final illness in 1817, she lived a productive life in a pleasant cottage in Chawton provided by her wealthy brother Edward.

In 1811 “Sense and Sensibility” was published anonymously: the title page started only that it was “By a Lady”. Immediately successful, this first novel was followed by “Pride and Perjudice” in 1813 and “Mansfield Park” in 1814.

“Emma”, written between 1814 and 1815, was respectfully dedicated at royal command George IV. In 1816, already in declining health, Austen wrote “Persuasion” and revised “Susan” into Northanger Abbey. Her last work, “Sandition”, was left unfinished at her death on July 18, 1817. Austenīs identity as an author was announced to the world posthumously by her favorite brother, Henry, who supervised the publication of “Northanger Abbey” and “Persuasion” in 1818.

 

 

. Project.

 

 

Jane Austen have a much complete career and I will speak of her books most famous.

In 1811 was published “Sense and Sensibility”, this novel featured two sisters of varying temperaments, and Marianne. At their fatherīs death left without fortune, they are left to the love, loss and life in their different manners.

“Pride and Perjudice” was plublished early 1813. A delightful mix of irony and of course romance, this is one of Jane Austenīs most popular novel.

Austen describes this novel “her own darling child”, in a letter to her sister Cassandra, that was “too light and bright and sparkling; it wants shade; it will be streatched out here and there with a long chapter—of sense if it could be not, of solemn specious nonsense—about something unconnected .

Jane Austen uses the irony to entertain the reader and to highlight the characters. This is especially the case where Elizabeth is involved. In the beginning of Elizabeth, who is proud of her judgement of character.

The irony has always been considered entertaining, despite the time differences, and is a tool that Austen uses in “Pride and Perjudice” without restraint.

In many of Austenīs novels she discusses many themes through the representations of characters, situations and society. Pride and Perjudice is one the greatest examples of this. It is the themes that Austen uses in the novel Pride and Perjudice are in to society today. This themes are for example: feminism and the level and form of education, are not present as sermon, but gently introduced in such as that they create a more diverse story.

The characters of Pride and Perjudice are exaggerated in such a way that they become obvious to the reader. Jane Austen uses this to play on the readerīs about the characters. Despite the fact that there are many themes in Pride and Perjudice to entertain, it is important remember that Austen wrote Pride… to entertain not to uses it a medium to give sermons to its readers.

“Mansfield Park” was published in1814, this novels features a rather dubious heroine of Fanny. Auten was writing this when Pride and Perjudice was being received the acclaim of the public; this novel was released in May, and had sold out by autumn.

At the beginning of 1814, Jane began to write this brilliant novel; it was finished in1815 and published in 1816. The heroine Emma, an heiress determinate to marry.

“Northanger Abbey” was published in 1818 (posthumously), this novel is a ghotic satire,.

And for finish the novel “Persuasion”, it is similar to Northanger Abbey; it was published in 1818 how the Northanger……

. Conclusion.

 

Jane Austen can be classified as one of the greatest woman authors because she open the way to more women authors. And she animated to others women for study and write ; for to leave the margination.

 

.Bibliography.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8563/books/index.html.