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Jane Austen | |
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Born | (1775-12-16)16 December 1775 Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, England |
Died | 18 July 1817(1817-07-18) (aged 41) Winchester, Hampshire, England |
Resting place | Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire |
Period | 1787–1817 |
Relatives | Family and ancestry |
Signature | |
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Jane Austen (/ˈɒstɪn, ˈɔːs-/; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known for her six major novels, which critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism.[3][lower-alpha 3] Her use of biting irony, along with her realism and social commentary, have earned her acclaim among critics and scholars.
With the publication of the books Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816), she achieved modest success but only little fame in her lifetime since the books were published. She wrote other novels—Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818—and began another, eventually titled Sanditon, but died before its completion. She also left behind three volumes of juvenile writings in manuscript, the short epistolary novel Lady Susan, and the unfinished novel The Watsons.
- Kirkham (2005), 68–72.
- Kirkham (2005), 68–72.
- Grundy (2014), 195–197
- MacDonagh (1991), 65, 136–137.
- The original is unsigned but was believed by the family to have been made by Austen's sister Cassandra and remained in the family until 1920 with a signed sketch by Cassandra. The original sketch, according to relatives who knew Jane Austen well, was not a good likeness.[2]
- Oliver MacDonagh says that Sense and Sensibility "may well be the first English realistic novel" based on its detailed and accurate portrayal of what he calls "getting and spending" in an English gentry family.[4]