4. THE SECRET OF HER SUCCESS
• What makes her world wide
success so surprising is the
narrowness of the world her stories
portray, “three or four families in a
country village”. “Her novels always
end happily in the end. They are
also funny,” says Nigel Nicolson.
Also all the books have the same
plot: searching for the right mate.
Her lively characters both male and
female, are such that readers still
identify with them two centuries
later. The novelist Henry James
even compared Jane to Homer and
Shakespeare.
5. The life of Jane Austen
• She was born in 1775 in Steventon, in
a family not well off . By the time she
was 12 , she was writing fascinating
stories of their amusement. She never
married but she had three possible
opportunities. She knew too well that
for someone in her position marriage
was very important, for the only
suitable of her age was school
teaching or being a governess. In her
novels both money and marriage have
important parts to play.
6. • After her father died she had
an very hard life poorer than
before. The rest of the family
lived in the estate of one of
the Jane’s brothers Edward.
Than the was more happier
and able to start writing. Her
first novel was Sense and
Sensibility(1811) and than
Pride and Prejudice (1813).
She died with a disease of
the kidneys, at the age of 41.
7. JANE AUSTEN, A STAR WORLDWIDE
• The influence of the cinema and television
has led the worldwide success of Jane
Austen. People first see the movie and
than read the book. One of her books,
Pride and Prejudice was voted in BCC poll
in UK ‘the book the nation cannot live
without’. Also one film was Oscar-winning
which was based in her book Sense and
Sensibility. The actress who adapted this
movie said:”I do hope Jane know how big
she is worldwide.”
8. Pride and prejudice is a novel set in
19-centry England about Bennet
family and their five daughters. As the
enchanting story unfolds the sister
grow from young girls into young
ladies and their entrance into proper
society helps them to discover a much
about the world they live in. Each
sister has her own distinct personality
but it is the intelligent, lively and
sometimes stubborn Elizabeth who
gradually
discovers
that
first
impressions are not always as they
seem.
