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Jane Austen
  • An explorative journey through literature
  • By Srijan Kushwaha

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Author
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
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Jane Austen
  • Born in Hampshire, England in 1775
  • Received an education superior to that generally
    given to girls of her time
  • Began her first novel at age 14
  • Moved with family to Bath where she lived until
    her death, unmarried
  • Published novels anonymously
  • Writes about everyday lives of English gentry
    like herself, focuses a great deal on marriage
  • Played the piano
  • Died at age 42

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Austens works
  • Sense and Sensibility, 1811
  • Pride and Prejudice, 1813
  • Mansfield Park, 1814
  • Emma, 1815
  • Persuasion,1817
  • Northanger Abbey, 1817

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Biography
  • Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works
    of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry,
    earned her a place as one of the most widely read
    writers in English literature. Her realism and
    biting social commentary has gained her
    historical importance among scholars and critics.
    Austen lived her entire life as part of a
    close-knit family located on the lower fringes of
    the English landed gentry. She was educated
    primarily by her father and older brothers as
    well as through her own reading. The steadfast
    support of her family was critical to her
    development as a professional writer. Her
    artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage
    years into her thirties. During this period, she
    experimented with various literary forms,
    including the epistolary novel which she tried
    then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised
    three major novels and began a fourth. She wrote
    two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and
    Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818,
    and began a third, which was eventually titled
    Sanditon, but died before completing it.
    Austen's works critique the novels of
    sensibility of the second half of the 18th
    century and are part of the transition to
    19th-century realism. Her plots, though
    fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of
    women on marriage to secure social standing and
    economic security. Biographical information
    concerning Jane Austen is "famously scarce",
    according to one biographer. Only some personal
    and family letters remain (by one estimate only
    160 out of Austen's 3,000 letters are extant),
    and her sister Cassandra (to whom most of the
    letters were originally addressed) burned "the
    greater part" of the ones she kept and censored
    those she did not destroy. Other letters were
    destroyed by the heirs of Admiral Francis Austen,
    Jane's brother. Most of the biographical material
    produced for fifty years after Austen's death was
    written by her relatives and reflects the
    family's biases in favour of "good quiet Aunt
    Jane".

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Family
  • Austen's parents, George Austen (17311805),
    and his wife Cassandra (17391827), were members
    of substantial gentry families. George was
    descended from a family of woollen manufacturers,
    which had risen through the professions to the
    lower ranks of the landed gentry. Cassandra was a
    member of the prominent Leigh family they
    married on 26 April 1764 at Walcot Church in
    Bath. From 1765 until 1801, that is, for much of
    Jane's life, George Austen served as the rector
    of the Anglican parishes at Steventon, Hampshire,
    and a nearby village. Austen's immediate family
    was large six brothersJames (17651819), George
    (17661838), Edward (17671852), Henry Thomas
    (17711850), Francis William (Frank) (17741865),
    Charles John (17791852)and one sister,
    Cassandra Elizabeth (Steventon, Hampshire, 9
    January 17731845), who, like Jane, died
    unmarried. Cassandra was Austen's closest friend
    and confidante throughout her life. Of her
    brothers, Austen felt closest to Henry, who
    became a banker and, after his bank failed, an
    Anglican clergyman. Henry was also his sister's
    literary agent. His large circle of friends and
    acquaintances in London included bankers,
    merchants, publishers, painters, and actors he
    provided Austen with a view of social worlds not
    normally visible from a small parish in rural
    Hampshire.

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I've a Pain in my Head
  • 'I've a pain in my head' Said the suffering
    Beckford To her Doctor so dread. 'Oh! what
    shall I take for't?'Said this Doctor so dread
    Whose name it was Newnham. 'For this pain in
    your head Ah! What can you do Ma'am?'Said Miss
    Beckford, 'Suppose If you think there's no risk,
    I take a good Dose Of calomel brisk.'--'What
    a praise worthy Notion.' Replied Mr. Newnham.
    'You shall have such a potion And so will I too
    Ma'am.

  • - Jane
    austin

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Jane Austin House

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Writing Style
  • Jane austin was known for her ability to use
    sarcasm and humor to portray important issues
    such as social etiquitte,romance,and even
    politics. Her writing style was a mix of
    neoclassicism and romanticism.

10
Quotations
'An artist cannot do anything slovenly.' -by
Jane Austen
  • ''What fine
  • weather this is!
  • Not very becoming
  • perhaps early in the morning,
  • but very pleasant
  • out of doors at noon, and very
  • wholesomeat least everybody
  • fancies so, and imagination is everything.''
  • ''You are now collecting your
  • People delightfully, getting them exactly into
    such as spot as is the delight of my life 3 or 4
    Families in a Country Village is the very thing
    to work on.'
  • ''Nothing is to be compared to the misery of
    being bound without Love, bound to one,
    preferring another. That is a Punishment which
    you do not deserve.''

  • -all by Jane Austen

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Sense and Sensibility
Austens works
  • Characters Mrs. Dashwood, Elinor and Marianne
    Dashwood, Edward Ferrars, Colonel Brandon, John
    Willoughby, Lucy Steele
  • Setting English countryside and London
  • Plot When the Dashwood women are forced to move
    into a small cottage in the country they become
    acquainted with a few new men who eventually move
    permanently into their lives.
  • Style Formal diction, comedy of manners, told
    mostly from Elinors point of view
  • Tone Ironic
  • Imagery music, art, poetry, flowers, money
  • Themes A balance of sense and sensibility will
    lead one to success.
  • Disregard for propriety will endanger ones
    reputation and even life.
  • Overly passionate feelings can lead one to
    have misperceptions of the world.
  • Rash sensibility leads one to moral danger.
  • Idleness leads to bad decisions.

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Emma
Austens works
  • Characters Emma Woodhouse, George Knightley,
    Harriet Smith, Frank Churchill, Miss Bates, Jane
    Fairfax, Mr. Elton, Robert Martin, the Coles, and
    the Westons
  • Setting Highbury, England
  • Plot Bored after her governess left to be
    married, Emma Woodhouse takes on the self
    proclaimed role of Matchmaker in Highbury. Having
    no success at all, the last thing she had in mind
    but which comes true is her own marriage.
  • Style Comedy of Manners, formal diction, told in
    the perspective of Emma
  • Tone Ironic
  • Imagery riddles, music, musical instruments,
    dancing, letters
  • Themes Meddling in the lives of others is
    foolish and will only have negative consequences.
  • Boredom leads people to make foolish
    decisions.
  • Thinking too highly of ones self leads one
    to be insensitive to others.
  • It is dangerous to indulge in speculation.

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Irony and Marriages in Austens works
  • Her irony, her delicate, ruthless irony, is of
    the very substance of her style. It never
    obtrudes itself sometimes it only glints out in
    a turn of phrase. But it is never absent for more
    than a paragraph and her most straightforward
    piece of exposition is tart with its perfume.
    -Elizabeth Bowen on Emma
  • Elizabeth and Darcy
  • Marianne and Brandon
  • Emma and Knightley

Salisbury Cathedral, from the Bishop's Grounds.
1823
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Music
  • Music imagery is key in Austens works.
  • Characters reveal significant aspects of their
    personalities by their attitudes towards music.
  • The pianoforte is a central plot device in Emma.
  • The pieces that women or men would be typically
    playing for entertainment and leisure would be
    those of Cramer and composers with a similar
    style.

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The End
  • Thanks for listening! I hope you are inspired
    to read Jane Austen!
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