Jane Austen

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Jane Austen

• Emily Thayer
• Lt 130
• Spring 2006

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Who is Jane Austen?

• Jane Austen was an authoress who published more
  than six works during her lifetime.
• She was born in Steventon in Hampshire in 1775
  and died in Winchester, England in 1817.
• Many of her works are considered classic
  literature.

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Janes World

• Jane lived here from 1809-1817.
• Located in Chawton in Hampshire.
• She revised two of her novels and wrote three
  more while living in this house.

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Novels

• Sense and Sensibility (1811)
• Pride and Prejudice (1813)
• Mansfield Park (1814)
• Emma (1816)
• Northanger Abbey (1817) posthumous
• Persuasion (1817) posthumous

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Shorter Works

• Lady Susan
• The Watsons (incomplete novel)
• Sanditon (incomplete novel)
• The two incomplete novels were later completed
  by different authors.

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Jane Austen Today

• Many of Austens novels have been adapted into
  films.
• There are many web sites dedicated to Jane
  Austens life and works.

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Janeites

• Even though Jane Austen died many years ago, her
  legacy lives on through many dedicated fans.
• Bath, a town used often in Austens novels, has
  a museum and many other activities relating to
  Jane.

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Jane Austen Links

• Austenblog
• Jane Austen Museum
• Molland's
• Republic of Pemberley
• Wikipedia

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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not
pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably
stupid."   --  Jane Austen