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Jane Austen
‫جاين أوستن‬
Table of contents
1- Brief
2- Her biography
3- Her famous works
4- Resources

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Brief
Jane Austen is an English writer that was born on
December 16, 1775 at Steventon Rectory in Hampshire,
England and died on July 18, 1817 at the age of 41. The
English novelist presentation of ordinary people in
everyday life gave the novel its modern character. Her
authorship has only six novels; Sense and Sensibility
(1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814),
Emma (1815), Persuasion and Northanger Abbey (1817).
Her writings became timeless classics that have remained
critical and popular for more than two centuries after her
death. Although there’s only Little biographical
information about Austen’s life, a few letters survived
alongside the biographical notes written by her family
members. That’s because her older sister Cassandra
burned the bulk of letters she received in 1843 to prevent
their falling into wrong hands. So only 161 letter from
about 3,000 -that Austen may have written during her
lifetime- survived.

Her biography
In 1775, our great author was born at Steventon rectory
where Her father, the Reverend George Austen, served as
rector. Her mother Cassandra Austen was known for her
quick wit and impromptu poetry and stories. Jane was the
seventh child in a family of eight with six sons and two
daughters. Her siblings in order are James, George,
Edward, Henry, Cassandra, Francis, and Charles.
Jane’s elder sister, Cassandra, was her closest companion
throughout her life; both of then didn’t get married.
George Austen, the father was a scholar who instilled in
his children love of learning. His library was open for Jane
and her sister and he even supplied them with papers and
other materials for their writing and drawing. The
atmosphere in the Austen’s house was “All the fun and
nonsense of a large and clever family”. Also, acting was the
main amusement for the Austen's. In the rectory barn, the
family and friends staged a series of plays such as Richard
Sheridan's The Rivals (1775) and David Garrick's Bon Ton.
In 1783, Jane and Cassandra were sent to a boarding
school in Oxford run by Mrs. Crawley -a relative of their
mother- to receive their formal education, but the school
was moved to Southampton because of the outbreak of
measles in Oxford. Ironically, Typhoid Fever broke out in
Southampton. The girls returned home ill and It is said
that Jane took a full year to recover. In 1785, Jane and
Cassandra went to the Abbey School in Reading. In 1786,
they finished their formal education and came back home.
It is believed that Jane started writing as early as 1787
when she was only eleven years old. She wrote short
stories and poems that were later collectively referred to as
juvenilia. In the age of 14, she wrote Love and Friendship
and in the age of 17, she wrote the novella Lady Susan. It’s
said that she even penned Sense and Sensibility under its
Heroines’ name Elinor and Marianne before she was 20 .
In December 1795, Tom Lefroy, who was a nephew of a
nearby neighbor, visited Steventon. It is believed that Jane
head over heals in love with Tom. Her letters to
Cassandra, indicates that they spent a lot of time with each
other. “At length the day is come on which I am to flirt my
last with Tom Lefroy, and when you receive this it will be
over. My tears flow as I write at the melancholy idea.”
Jane wrote in one of her letters to her sister. Tom also
admitted to loving Jane when asked about her at the age of
94, though he called it a “boyish love”. In January 1796, He
was taken away from Steventon. It’s believed that Jane
never seen Tom again in her life.
In 1801, Jane moves to Bath with her parents and sister.
After moving to Bath, Jane visited Godmersham several
times and her last visit was in 1813. In December, 2 nd,
1802, Harris Bigg-Wither, a childhood friend and heir to a
large family estate, proposed to Jane and she accepted for
practical reasons. The very next day, however, Jane
withdrawn her acceptance, feeling it to be a mistake and it
was the only proposal Jane received.
In January 21st, 1805, Jane's father George Austen died
suddenly from an illness. His death took the family by
complete surprise. The Austen brothers agreed to help
support the mother and sisters. Forced to rent living
quarters, the Austen women moved many times since that
sad event.
Jane Austen achieved a modest success in her life, as the
books were published anonymously. Furthermore, this
success only began in 1813 with the publication of pride
and prejudice and continued till she became ill at some
point in 1827. At the beginning, her illness didn’t stop her
from writing, but on April 1817, the illness bedridden her
that she wrote a short will on April, 27th.
In Friday, July 18th, 1817, the great Jane Austen died in
Winchester during the early part of the day and in
Thursday, July 24th, she was buried in the nave’s aisle at
Winchester Cathedral. It was the direction of her brother
Henry.

Her famous works

Jane Austen wrote six major novels, one novella, minor
works and juvenilia. Each novel is now well-known around
the globe. No doubt her actual life and personal
interactions benefited her writing prowess for each work
takes on a life of its own. In her novels, Austen created the
comedy of manners of middle-class life in the England of
her time, revealing the possibilities of “domestic”
literature.
In the three early novels of Jane Austen, Sense and
Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Northanger
Abbey, a strong element of literary satire accompanies
the comic depiction of character and society. In the three
novels of Jane Austen’s maturity, the literary satire,
though still present, is more subdued and is subordinated
to the comedy of character and society. Firstly, Emma -
the most consistently comic in tone-. Then, Mansfield
Park -the most serious of Austen’s novels- and lastly
Persuasion. The two latter novels were published
posthumously in 1817 by Jane's brother Henry.
Austen’s works continue to be popular, as there is various
film and television adaptations of her work.
From Pride and prejudice movie (2005)

Resources
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17797/17797-h/17797-
h.htm
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jane-Austen
https://www.janeausten.org/jane-austen-timeline.php
https://byuprideandprejudice.wordpress.com/
2014/01/21/the-education-of-jane-and-cassandra-austen/
https://janeausten.co.uk/blogs/jane-austen-life/who-was-
the-real-tom-lefroy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jane-Austen/
Austens-novels-an-overview