JANE AUSTEN

CHILDHOOD

- born on December 16th 1775 in Steventon, a small village in southern England

- the 7th of 8 children of the Reverend George Austen and his wife, Cassandra

- educated mainly at home and never lived apart from her family

- had a good education for a girl at that time

- inseparable from her 2 years elder sister, Cassandra and lived together all of their live

-to amuse themselves Jane and her sister wrote and performed plays and charades

-Jane at the age of 8 and Cassandra 10, were sent for schooling with a tutor in Oxford

-after breaking out a typhoid fever both girls fell ill and their mother rushed them back to Steventon

- 2 years later they were sent for a boarding school again but the family did not have enough money

-at the age of 11 onwards Austen educated herself with books from her father's library, which he encouraged

- wrote her first novel at the age of 14, Love and Friendship  

JANE‘S SECRETS- enjoyed dancing- went to balls in many of the great houses in

the neighbourhood- loved the country , enjoyed long country

walks and had many Hampshire friend- she wished real life could be more like a novel- in 1801 the family moved away to Bath

RomanticismEra of love , desire for freedom and hope The characters are from different social classesStories portraits fight between one person (a hero)

and other characters A hero doesn´t want to addapt to the world The stories are situated in romantic places like

castles , prisons , forests and finish tragically and sadly

A man is active , often fallen in love , is capable of murder only to gain his love

A woman is passive and not able to change the course of the world

CREATION

1811 Sense and Sensibility

1813 Pride and Prejudice

1814 Mansfield park

1815 Emma

1818 Northanger Abbey Persuasion and Sanditon (unfinished)

Started writing novels in 1790, at the age of only 14, In Chawton

Although her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, (did not appear until 1811)

Pride and Prejudice -published two years later - 1813.

Combinates irony, humor and sophisticated observations between the classes

Works have gone on to inspire adaptations to the stage and film in 21st. century

Her novels were not really appreciated until after her death. Two hundred years later these popular stories have been made into both television series and film.

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Mrs. Dashwood with her 3 daughters has to find new home what is more she has problems with finding husbands to her children.

Mrs. Bennet, mother of five daughters, has to find husbands for all of them.

Pride and Prejudice

This is a story about Fancy Price. She grew up with Sir Thomas Bertram and his 3 children. She has a problem to get married for love or for money.

Mansfield Park

Emma Woodhouse is very rich, pretty and clever. She is a matchmaker. Her matchmaking causes mistakes and unhappiness.

Emma

It is a parody of gothic romances by Ann Radcliff. This story is about Catherine Morland and her crazy imagination and hobbies in romantic and scary books.

Northanger Abbey

It‘s about Anne‘s life and her unfulfilled love to a poor boy. Lots of years later they meet again and their love always remains.

Persuasion and Sandition (unfinished)

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