Thalia Rios
CP English 12
Pd. 7
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Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775. Her father was Reverend George Austen, and her
mother was Cassandra Austen. She was the seventh child out of eight, but she was only the second
daughter. Reverend George Austen taught children outside of his family to make some money, this was
his second job. When Austen was only eight years old she was sent off with her sister to a boarding
school. After she came back hoe from the boarding school she learned from her father and her
brothers, they taught her what they could. Since her father was a Reverend he had access to books,
papers, and other supplies they needed. In 1787, Jane Austen began writing in her notebooks; she
wrote poetry and stories that contained some subjects of her interest. In 1789 she wrote the comedy
Love and Friendship, and she began writing more comedies. After she finished the comedy Elinor and
Marianne she read it aloud to her family, they were amused by her writing. Jane Austen finished the
first draft for Pride and Prejudice. At the age of 27 she and her family moved to the town of Bath, this
was due to her parent’s retirement. Her brother Henry took a copy of Sense and Sensibility to one of
London’s publishers; the publisher liked the novel and published it in 1811, by 1813 they had sold out
all of the first edition novels. In January of 1813 they had published Pride and Prejudice. About four
years later on July 18, 1817 Jane Austen passed away leaving her brother and sister to get her other
books published, she is buried in Winchester Cathedral.
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In the novel Pride and Prejudice a wealthy man
named Charles Bingley rented the Netherfield Park
the village is surprised, one of the families that is
really shocked is the Bennet family. The Bennets
have five daughters none of which are married; this
was a great opportunity for one of them to get
married. When Charles Bingley meets Jane, one of
the Bennet daughters, he spends his time dancing
with her. Mr. Bingley’s close friend, Mr. Darcy later
starts falling for Elizabeth, the second Bennet
daughter. When Jane becomes ill Elizabeth has to
hike through fields, and finally arrives to
NetherField. When Miss Bingley, Charles’ sister,
notices that Mr. Darcy is paying more attention to
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In the novel Sense and Sensibility, Mr. Henry
Dashwood dies and leaves everything to his son, and
leaves nothing to his second wife and their three
daughters. His three daughters did not have a good
place to live and were very poor. Living in these
conditions they are forced to move to Barton Park
with their distant relatives. In this new town Elinor
and Marianne meet some new people, two of these
new people are Colonel Brandon and Mr. John
Willoughby. Mr. Willoughby rescues Marianne when
she gets hurt running in the rain, and from that point
on they manage to build a relationship. Willoughby
then tells Marianne that he has to leave to London
because business is calling.
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Emma, published in 1815, has been described as a
"mystery story without a murder". The eponymous
heroine is the charming (but perhaps too clever for
her own good) Emma Woodhouse, who manages to
deceive herself in a number of ways (including as to
who is really the object of her own affections), even
though she (and the reader) are often in possession
of evidence pointing toward the truth. Like Catherine
Morland in Northanger Abbey, Marianne Dashwood in
Sense and Sensibility, and Elizabeth Bennet in Pride
and Prejudice, she overcomes self-delusion during
the course of her novel. The book describes a year in
the life of the village of Highbury and its vicinity,
portraying many of the various inhabitants.
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This novel, originally published in 1814, is the first of Jane
Austen's novels not to be a revised version of one of her pre1800 writings. Mansfield Park has sometimes been considered
atypical of Jane Austen, as being solemn and moralistic,
especially when contrasted with the immediately preceding Pride
and Prejudice and the immediately following Emma. Poor Fanny
Price is brought up at Mansfield Park with her rich uncle and
aunt, where only her cousin Edmund helps her with the
difficulties she suffers from the rest of the family, and from her
own fearfulness and timidity. When the sophisticated Crawfords
(Henry and Mary), visit the Mansfield neighbourhood, the moral
sense of each marriageable member of the Mansfield family is
tested in various ways, but Fanny emerges more or less
unscathed. The well-ordered (if somewhat vacuous) house at
Mansfield Park, and its country setting, play an important role in
the novel, and are contrasted with the squalour of Fanny's own
birth family's home at Portsmouth, and with the decadence of
London
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This playful short novel is the one which most resembles
Jane Austen's Juvenilia. It is the story of the
unsophisticated and sincere Catherine Morland on her first
trip away from home, for a stay in Bath. There she meets
the entertaining Henry Tilney; later, on a visit to his
family's house (the "Northanger Abbey" of the title) she
learns to distinguish between the highly charged
calamities of Gothic fiction and the realities of ordinary life
(which can also be distressing in their way). Like Jane
Austen's Love and Freindship, this book makes fun of the
conventions of many late 18th century literary works, with
their highly wrought and unnatural emotions; some of this
humor derives from the contrast between Catherine
Morland and the conventional heroines of novels of the
day (for an idea of the latter, see the Plan of a Novel).
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This relatively short novel, her last, was written in the last few years of Jane
Austen's life, and published only after her death in 1817 (though she described it,
in a letter of March 13 1816, as "a something ready for publication", she probably
would have revised it further, if she had not already been ill with her eventually
fatal disease by the time she stopped working on it). It involves an older heroine
than any of her other novels do (Anne Elliot is 27), and is also the only novel
whose events are explicitly dated to a specific year (1814-1815). Eight years
before the novel begins, Anne Elliot (whom Jane Austen described in one of her
letters as a "heroine [who] is almost too good for me") had been persuaded by an
older friend of the family, whom she respects, to give up her engagement to the
then-poor Captain Wentworth. Like Mansfield Park, this novel has a number of
characters who are in the navy (two of Jane Austen's brothers were sailors), and
several warm-hearted naval families are attractively depicted; these contrast
favorably with Anne's own family, in which she is overlooked by her vain and rankproud Baronet father and her cold and selfish elder sister. In its autumnal mood,
this novel is more serious in tone than most of Jane Austen's other works, and
perhaps is the most conventionally "romantic" of them (and thus the one which
has given rise to the most speculation about her own affairs of the heart -- for
example, by Kipling); however, there is still plenty of Jane Austen irony. Persuasion
also contains more description of background and natural beauty than the
previous novels. In her admiration for the seaside town of Lyme and dislike of
Bath, Anne Elliot reflects her creator's preferences.
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Along with a satirical "History of England", Love and
Freindship (usually cited in Jane Austen's original spelling)
is the most famous of her Juvenilia. This is an exuberant
parody (in epistolary form) of the cult of sensibility, which
she later criticized in a more serious way in her novel
Sense and Sensibility. For the main characters in Love and
Freindship, including the narrator Laura, violent and overt
emotion substitutes for morality and common sense.
Characters who have this "sensibility“ fall into each other's
arms weeping the first time they ever meet, and on
suffering any misfortune are too preoccupied with
indulging their emotions to take any effective action ("Ah!
what could we do but what we did!... It was too pathetic
for the feelings of Sophia and myself -- We fainted
alternately on a sofa"). They use their fine feelings as the
excuse for any misdeeds, and despise characters without
such feelings: