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Ivan,Alessandro,Fabio and Andrea
Present The biography of Jane Austen
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Jane Austen was born on 16 December in 1775 in
Steventon, Hampshire, and she died on 18 July in
1817 in England. She is best known asThe author
of Pride and Prejudice. 
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Jane Austen's novels were witty, warm and ironic
portraits of the privileged classes of the 18th-
and 19th-century in England. Her best-known works
are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and
Prejudice (1813), and Emma (1815).
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Austen was one of eight children of an English
clergyman, and given her literary accomplishments
she lived a remarkably quiet and domestic life in
the rural south of England.
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She never married and was only 41 when she
died.The Pride and Prejudice heroine Elizabeth
Bennet and her dashing suitor Mr. Darcy are one
of the most famous couples in English fiction.
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Pride and Prejudice
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Pride and prejudice written in 1813 tells the
story of the Bennet family. At the beginning of
the 19th century, the Bennets live in a small
country village in Hertfordshire and have five
daughters .
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Mrs Bennet has just one purpose in her life to
find husbands for her daughters, because if they
dont marry, according to the law, their estate
will pass to a male relative.
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The heroine is the second of the daughters,
Elizabeth, a girl with a strong personality. Her
eldest sister is the gentle Jane, the others are
Mary, Kitty, and Lydia .
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Their calm life is shaken by the arrival of two
rich gentlemen, Mr Bingley and Mr Darcy . Bingley
falls in love with Jane, and Darcy is attracted
to Elizabeth, even if he believes he is socially
superior to her.
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This makes Elizabeth angry. Eventually, they
overcome their pride and their prejudices, and
the novel ends with the happy marriages of the
two couples.