Jane Austen Research Paper

Jane Austen is a well-known classic British author from the 18th century. Austen was born on December 16, 1775 in Steventon Hampshire, England into a middle-class family made up of eight children in which she is the seventh child of Cassandra Austen and George Austen. The Austen family was a close-knitted family, which learned together. Her father served at the Oxford-educated as a clergyman for a nearby Anglican parish. He taught Jane Austen and her siblings, and they were highly encouraged in being educated and having creative thinking. Her father’s level of education impacted her greatly, she was brought up in a creative and educated environment and family. When Austen and siblings were younger they were encouraged to read from their father’s

As a result, on the weekends she would often go out and dance with her neighbors at cotillions. Jane includes her doings in her writing as Miss Bingley, "Oh! certainly," cried his faithful assistant, no can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved" (Austen). She is mentioning what should would do as when she was a child. This also showing that women were not needed to be educated or strong but instead only needed to know how to entertain. Miss Bingley was a representation of what men or elder women expected from their spouses. At the age of twenty she met a young man named Thomas Lefroy, a young Irish lawyer. Despite them falling in love their relationship was not approved of because of Austen’s family money issue they could not see each other because a man with wealth could not marry a woman lower than his class so were later separated. This bothered Austen so much that she wrote a book about it. A young woman poor but educated marrying a

The family is deviated despite not only losing George Austen, but the three women did not have money to support themselves, so they began to move from place to place until they relocated to Chewton Hampshire at Edward Austen’s cottage, one of Jane Austen’s brothers. He inherited this estate from the Knights family. During this stable time in her life after her father's death from 1804-1814 is where she began to anonymously publish her novels and did most of her writing. She published four in her lifetime, despite her writing four novels her and her publisher were not fond of each other. They got in a argument over Emma, one of her novels and she decided to publish it on her own. It was a bust the novels was not all to popular. A majority of people were not very fond of a women writer which is why in her lifetime Austen was not really celebrated as a novelist. In 1816 Jane Austen soon became ill at the age of 41 and moved to Winchester England, but she still continued to work on her novels. After her death on July 18, 1817 at the age of forty-two, some of her projects that she was working on were still published. Today almost two hundred years later Jane Austen is one of the most admired authors in literature and sometimes compared Shakespeare, because of the depth she gave her characters. In brief, her novels