JANE AUSTEN - PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 1ºESO

JANE AUSTEN

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist. Her works made her one of the most famous and beloved writers in English literature. She is one of the great masters of the English novel.

She wrote about typical people in everyday life.  Her stories are often comic, but they also show how women depended on marriage for social standing and economic security. Her works are also about moral problems.

Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon, near Basingstoke. Educated mostly by her father and older brothers, and also by her own reading, she lived with her family at Steventon. They moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After he died in 1805, she moved around with her mother. In 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. In May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. She died there on 18 July 1817.

Only four of her novels were printed while she was alive:

• Sense and Sensibility (1811)
• Pride and Prejudice (1813)
• Mansfield Park (1814)
• Emma (1816). 

Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were printed in 1817 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen. Persuasion was written shortly before her death. She also wrote two earlier works, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. She had been working on a new novel, Sanditon, but she died before she could finish it.

  Retrieved and adapted from:  https://kids.kiddle.co/Jane_Austen

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