Jane Austen

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Jane Austens life
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• Jane Austen was a major English novelist, whose
  brilliantly witty, elegantly structured satirical
  fiction marks the transition in English
  literature from 18th century neo-classicism to
  19th century romanticism. 

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• Jane Austen was born on 16th December in 1775 at
  the rectory in the village of Steventon.
• She was the seventh.
• She was educated primarily by her father.
• From her older sister, Cassandra, she was
  inseparable.

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• At the age of 14 she wrote her first novel, Love
  and Freindship.
• As a young woman Jane enjoyed dancing and she
  attended balls.
• She loved the country, enjoyed long country
  walks.

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• When Austen was twenty, Tom Lefroy visited
  Steventon.
• Lefroy and Austen would have been introduced at a
  ball.
• It is clear from Jane's letters to Cassandra that
  they spent a lot of time together I am almost
  afraid to tell you how my Irish friend and I
  behaved.

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• Neither had any money, and Tom was dependent on a
  great-uncle. So, Jane Austen never saw him again.
• Austen began work on a second novel, First
  Impressions (it later became Pride and Prejudice).

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• Jane and her sister visited Alethea and Catherine
  Bigg whose junger brother, Harris Bigg-Wither. He
  proposed and Jane accepted because the marriage
  offered many practical advantages to Jane and her
  family.

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• In 1801 the family moved away to Bath.
• The next four years were difficult ones for Jane.
• After the death of Mr Austen, the Austen ladies
  moved to Southampton.

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• The cause of Janes death was the typhus.
• She died in Winchester on 18th July in 1817, at
  the age of 41.
• She has never been married.

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• She earned her a place as one of the most widely
  read writers in English literature.
• Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility
  of the 18th century and are part of the
  transition to the 19th-century realism. She
  highlights the dependence of women on marriage to
  secure social standing and economic security.

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