Jane Austin生平简介

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Jane Austin( December 1775 – July 1817)

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“Jane Austen was an English novelist, whose realism, biting social commentary and use of free indirect speech have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature.” ----Wikipedia

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Family Education Conditions for writing Love Places she lived Social atmosphere Writing Death

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Family father William, a rector, from a family of woolen manufacturers which had risen through the professions to the lower ranks of the landed gentry ; mother Cassandra, a member of the prominent Leigh family; Greatly affected by her parents who were avid readers; received a broader education than many women of her time.

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the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight; sister, Elizabeth Cassandra, died unmarried, her closest friend and confidante throughout her life; favorite brother Henry, provided her with a view of social worlds not normally visible from a small parish in rural Hampshire, became her literary agent later ;

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Education once sent to Oxford with Cassandra to be educated by Mrs. Ann Cawley in 1783, (but quitted for both catching typhus and Jane nearly died) later early in1785 went to boarding school for a short time. acquired the remainder of her education by reading books, guided by her father and her brothers James and Henry.

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Social atmosphere Class divisions were rooted in family connections and wealth. The chief method of self-improvement for women was the acquisition of wealth. That is to say, to marry well a girl needed a large amount of fortune, or luck.

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Love and marriage Tom Lefroy: handsome, experienced but poor, met in parties, marriage was impractical; Harris Bigg-Wither :rich but boring, received her only proposal of marriage, refused the next day; Never Married

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Places she livedSteventon, Hampshire: the first 25 years of peaceful and happy life; Bath (a place of tourist resort):broadening of vision, dislike the place; Chawton village (with mother and sisters): a more settled life, given more opportunity to write.

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Conditions for writing had access to her father’s large and varied library; was allowed to do so some risqué experiments in writing; was provided with expensive papers and other materials for her writing despite of her family‘s financial problems; benefited from private theatricals, in which her comedic and satirical gifts were cultivated ;

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Writing In the early time, wrote secretly, just for her own and her family‘s amusement; During her time at Chawton, wanted to live by her pen, published her novels, provided her with some financial and psychological independence.

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“She wrote behind a door that creaked when visitors approached; this warning allowed her to hide manuscripts before anyone could enter.”

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Death died in Winchester on 18 July 1817, at the ag

e of 41, be buried in the north aisle of the nave of Winchester Cathedral.

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