Jane Austen: (1775-1817) English Novelist

Jane Austen
(1775- 1817)
English novelist
Jane Austen’s biography
• Was born in 1775 in Hampshire in
England
• She was the seventh child out of
eight
• In 1783 she moved to
Southampton
• 1785-1786 she went to Abbey
boarding school
• 1782 and 1784 plays were staged
by the Austen family
• In 1801 she and her family moved
to Bath where the most
productive work was done
• She died in Winchester in 1817,
aged 41.
• Jane and her sister
Cassandra lived here
• village of Chawton
• In this house she wrote and
revised her famous novels
• In 1949 the house was
opened as the museum
• The museum contains her
memorabilia and artefacts
• As many women novelists in
a time where novel writing
was not quite respectable,
she published her novels
anonymously. This kept her
excluded from literary
circles.
Social Customs
• Dances figure prominently in Jane
Austen’s novels.
• Dance would often last for half an
hour
• Dancers had ample time to converse,
flirt, and even touch one another in
an accepted manner.
• A gentleman would, of course, never
ask a young lady to dance unless he
was first introduced to her.
• During this era people were often
judged for their ability to dance
skilfully, and a gentleman was
pressured to cut a fine figure on the
dance floor.
Jane Austen’s Writings
• Northanger Abbey
• Sense and Sensibility
• Pride & Prejudice
• Mansfield Park
• Persuasion
• Emma
• Juvenilia
• Love and Friendship
• Lady Susan
• The Watsons
• Sanditon
Pride and Prejudice
• Published in 1813
• A love story
• This is wittiest of Jane Austen's novel
• The plot: a love story between Miss Elizabeth
and Mr.Darcy
Characters
• Mr.Bennet
• Jane Elizabeth
• Mary, Kitty Lydia Bingley
• Louisa Hurst Caroline
• Mr. Collins
• Old Mr. Darcy
• Lady Ann Darcy
• Mr. Darcy
• Georgiana Darcy
• Lady Catherine
• Colonel Fitzwilliam
• Mr. Gardiner
• Mrs. Gardine
• Sir William
• Lady Lucas
• Old Mr. Wickham
• Wickham
Famous Quotes
• “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from
admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a
moment.”
•
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I
ever heard of.”
•
“An engaged woman is always more agreeable
than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself.
Her cares are over, and she feels that she may
exert all her powers of pleasing without
suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no
harm can be done.”
• “I do not want people to be agreeable, as it
saves me the trouble of liking them.”
• “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are
done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
• “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has
not pleasure in a good novel, must be
intolerably stupid.”
• “Angry people are not always wise.”
• “Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us
so perfect for one another!”
• “but for my own part, if a book is well written,
I always find it too short.”
• “For what do we live, but to make sport for
our neighbors, and laugh at them in our
turn?”
• “I always deserve the best treatment because I
never put up with any other.”
• “I may have lost my heart, but not my self-
control. ”
• “Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I
do not like.”
• “I have not the pleasure of understanding
you.”
• “A woman, especially if she have the misfortune
of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as
she can.”
• “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it
more.”
• “Better be without sense than misapply it as you
do. ”
• “There are persons who the more you do for
them, the less they will do for themselves.”
• “I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
• “Men were put into the world to teach women
the law of compromise. ”
• “Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
• “Selfishness must always be forgiven you know,
because there is no hope of a cure.”
• “No man is offended by another man's
admiration of the woman he loves, it is the
woman only who can make it a torment.”
• "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect
for your nerves. They
are my old friends. I have heard you mention
them with consideration
these last twenty years at least.”
• “There are as many forms of love as there are
moments in time.”
Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)
• Starring:
Keira Knightley
Matthew Macfadyen
Brenda Blethyn
Donald Sutherland
Tom Hollander
Rosamund Pike
Jena Malone
Judi Dench
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