Jane Austen
Autor: Anna Blan | Publicado: 2015-11-28T13:15:00-02:00


&nbsp; Jane Austen was a British novelist, of the 18th century, more precisely in the late 18th century and early sec19th, whose literary work gave the English novel the first impulse for modernity, with its lightweight  narrative when dealing with the daily lives of ordinary people, and with acute psychological insight and subtle irony.  For ex.: Lady Susan a parody of the sentimental style, when she was just 17th years old.

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She was born on 1775, December 16, at Steventon Rectory in Hampshire, England. 
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Her father, Reverend George Austen (1731-1805) was the rector at Steventon and in 1764, he married Cassandra Leigh Austen (1739-1827) who was from a patrician family. 
Because of it&nbsp;Jane lived her entire life within a small social group formed by the English landed gentry.

Jane Austen was the youngest of George and Cassandra's eight children - she had six brothers and one sister. 
The family was tightly-knit, and Jane was particularly close to her sister Cassandra and her brother, Henry, who would later became her literary agent
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In 1795, Austen met Tom Lefroy, the nephew of her neighbor at Steventon. 
In her letters to Cassandra, Austen wrote about spending a great deal of time with Lefroy and hinted at her romantic feelings for him. The marriage did not happen because Lefroy’s tutor gave no permission for wedding? 

&nbsp; During the time of Jane Austen there was no education system itself, and the education of children was made in Sundays Schools or in case of the wealthiest  families through the Tutors.
And  it was also common to send their sons to live in the house of a tutor, to receive a private lesson by a payment, as was the father of Jane.

&nbsp;So the Rev. Austen was a kind of tutor, and supplemented the family income  was giving particular lessons to students residing in his home. 
For that their father kept in his house a sizable library and indulged his daughters' curiosity with plenty of reading  material.
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Growing up in this house, it can be assumed that the Jane was a woman well educated for their time. 
Different  from ordinary women who should be educated  to meet his wife and mother roles, and obey her husband.

So facing the refusal of the Lefroy’s tutor Jane said:
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-“Tom, you are a lawyer and I’m a writer.
 We can get married and live of our work”.
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Lefroy agree, he was in accordance, and they decide to run away, to get married.
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However when they were fleeing, out of the blue, Jane found a letter from Tomas's mother in which she thanks him for sharing his allowance to her.
Lefroy’s mother was a widow with six children.

&nbsp;So Jane finds out that without  the permission of Tom’s Tutor, the Lefroy’s family would be unprotected.

In view of, Jane, heroin as their characters, gave up the love of her life. 
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After the conclusion of her brief romance with Lefroy, Austen began work on a second novel with the name was   “First Inspiration”,  called  later  “Pride and Prejudice”,  in with  the main character, Mr. Darcy, she created inspired in Tom Lefroy. 
&nbsp;Jane Austen never married.

Whay Jane never fell in love again and so be  married....
Because she is a romantic woman, typical  behavior  for that time,
when the relationship  do not have a happy end,&nbsp;she get sick or commit suicide or go to the convent…..
No, of course not. this behavior do not fit in Jane.
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Jane wasn’t a romantic person and nor a romantic writer.

&nbsp;In her works the female main characters used to use the reason, for example, in her  novel  “Ellinor and Marianne” later named  “Sense and Sensibility”,  the female main character decide to love, decide for whom to give her hart, choose the man wherewith to marry.

So&nbsp;Jane chose to fight for their financial autonomy to marry without love. 

Austen believed that a marriage could not do if it was for convenience, she not believes in getting married just for the money, possessions or land.

Then she began to devote herself to novels. 

He published because he wanted to be a writer and had to make money somehow. 
Married it was not.
&nbsp;Jane was a woman trying to live up to what he believed in a society that would never understand (and many still do not understand!). 

 She wrote according to what they know, according to their views. and won. 
Won international recognition and prospered in their autonomy, writing accord to their views, and married was not.

“Jane  was  the  true representative  of  the women's movement  of  his  time” 

Jane Austen Works:

&nbsp;Elinor and Marianne (1795-96) later named Sense and Sensibility – published in 1811. 



 First Impressions (1796-97) later named Pride and Prejudice – published in 1813.

Susan (1798-99) later named Northanger Abbey – published in 1818 (posthumous)

Emma (1814-1815) published in 1816 and it was dedicated to the Prince Regent. 


Mansfield Park (1881-1813) –published in 1814. 
Persuasion (1815-1816) – published in 1818 (posthumous) .


During the Regency Period of the Prince of Wales (1810 a 1820) she had her works published, because the Prince regency had a good  interesting of art, more specifically novel and more especifically Jane.
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In early 1816, Austen suffered an on set of illness that culminated in her death the following year. She died at the age of 41 on 1817 July 8, and now she was buried at the famous Winchester Cathedral. 
By Anna Blan