3.
Jane Austen was born on 16th December 1775, at
Steventon in Hampshire, where her father, the Rev.
George Austen, was rector.
Her mother was Cassandra Leigh.
Jane Austen died on July 18th, 1817.
Biography
4.
From 1783 to 1785, Jane and cassandra attend school
in oxford and southampton and the Abbey School at
reading.
Austens could no longer afford the tuition, Jane and
Cassandra returned home to read extensively.
she learnt from their Family how to speak French
and Italian and play the piano.
Her father kept a large collection of Literature in his
home library.
Jane and her sister both had permission to use
library and get benefits from the books.
Education
7. The Austens were moderately well off. They kept a
carriage and pair and ‘enjoyed … some of the
considerations usually awarded to landed proprietors’.
The household was lively and bookish.
The family also enjoyed writing and performing plays for
evening entertainment.
8.
Jane Austen’s Dressing
This is a photograph of
a coat worn by Jane
Austen.
It gives an idea of the
type of clothes worn by
young ladies of the
time.
9.
Because of the charm of her plots, their setting in
merry old England, and the Victorian-styled
costumes and 1850 setting used in the first film
adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in 1940), you may
view Austen as Victorian. (This isn't your fault . . .
the 1940 film misled you!) But Jane Austen lived
between 1775 and 1817, and her novels came out
between 1813 and 1818, the year after her death,
which places her and her work in the Georgian
period of English history.
Georgian Writer
10.
Pride and Prejudice 1796 (Pub. 1813)
Sense and Sensibility 1797 (Pub. 1811)
Northhanger Abbey 1798 (Pub. 1818)
Mansfield Park (Pub. 1814)
Emma (Pub. 1815)
Persuasion (Pub. 1818)
Austen Novels
11.
She was not a Victorian.
She was the kind of person who seldom glanced to
past or future.
She neither, wished to startle the world with
revolutionary achievements.
She took her world as she found it, wishing for
nothing better.
She would have found little zest in an ideal world.
Jane Austen’s outlook
13.
Mr. knightely
“I wonder what will become of her”
Mrs.Norris
“Is one who makes a very strong first impression.”
Static quality in Jane
Austen
14.
Jane Austen defined her boundaries,and never
steeped beyond them.
She had a narrow experience;but she adopted and
entirely different attitude towards it.
she adjusted her vision,and focused it to a very small
perspective.
She choose the microscopic method of observation.
In the mental as in the physical vision of very human
being there is a blind spot;
Imposing Limitations
15.
Jane Austen style is strongle antithetic.
Her style in pride and prejudice.
Dramatic Irony
Showed equal command
Jane Austen style
16.
She specialised in happiness.
In Mansfiled Park She wrote;
“Let other pens dvbhwell on guilt and misery,I quite
such odious subjects as soon as I can,impatient to
restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves,to
tolerable comfort,and to have done with all the rest.”
In every book of Jane Austen showed the same
willingness to appreciate the good things of life.
Specialised in happiness
17.
Jane Austen is as “a mere pillor of darkness in the
dark.”
In almost every secret there is an element of
romance.
Jane Austen world of
Wit and Humour
18.
The best Jane Austen Character are;
Her Heroines are
Ordinary Women
Elizabeth BennetElinor Dashwood
20.
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Some others are
George Crawford
Diane Park
Mrs. Noris
Filtzwilliam Darsi
Sir Walter Elliot
Lady Suson Veron
Jane Austen choose an ordinary type of heroines and
never allowed to become extraordinary.
21.
Jane Austen Appeal to Twentieth
Century
Wonderful understanding of human nature.
Works are relevant till this age.
Characters are universal.
Works are easily translated across various mediums.
Pop cultural reinvention.
22.
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from
admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a
moment.”
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever
heard of.”
“An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a
disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are
over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of
pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady
engaged; no harm can be done.”
Jane Austen Quotes
