Jane Austen Research Paper

December 16, 1775, a young lady named Jane Austen was born into a very tightly knit family. She was one of eight children; Cassandra Austen who Jane Austen was really close to compared to everyone else, Francis, Edward, Henry, Charles, James, George, and Miss Jane Austen herself (Bio.com). Austen was really close to her father George Austen, and was very useful to her mother Cassandra Leigh Austen. Austen’s father George Austen was a Oxford-Educated Rector at an Anglican Parish. Her mother Cassandra Austen had very well secured family connections to Duke as well as Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey (JaneAusten.co.uk). Austen’s Father had a library of 500 books, which left Austen better educated than most of the young girls of her time. Austen

Austen was courted by several young men, but there were a few in particular that had Austen's attention more than others, a young man named Thomas Lefroy an Irish relative of Jane Austen's close older friend Mrs. Anne Lefroy, the two had a mutual flirtation, but when it came down to marriage Mr.Lefroy couldn't afford to marry her, he was being funded by a good not necessarily wealthy family, and the family rejected, rather denied the thought of marriage between the two. After Mr.Lefroy had completed his education he tried to fix Jane Austen up with the Rev. Samuel Blackall, a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, but Jane wasn't very interested (Pemberley.com). People say love never dies because not too long after the heartbreak of Mr.Lefroy, Jane Austen was proposed too, by a good family friend named Harris Bigg-Whither. Mr. Bigg-Whither was a fresh new graduate of Oxford University. Austen accepted the lovely proposal and although she accepted the proposal she did not love him, which eventually led Ms. Austen to withdraw her acceptance (About.com). The painful decision to turn down her chance of marriage was the soul option women had for social mobility (Pbs.org).

Finding a new home in 1801 Austen moves to baths to follow her father, but he suddenly passes away in 1805 leaving the mother and the eight children struggling bouncing from close friends to extended family trying to find residency. After all the hectic

In the book Sense and Sensibility. As a young lady she experienced having to live in a pre-judged reputation. In the story Sense and Sensibility the two sisters Jane and Elizabeth are viewed as the typical woman they are basically breed to be married, and in Austen’s younger life she was portrayed as the typical wife, she was educated but more useful in the house than out in the real world, her duties were always needed inside with her mother and the other sisters, despite how attached she was to her father, her basic duties were to help with the other children, she learned the kitchen duties from her mother Reputation was just another obstacle that Austen had to over come to become the successful person she did and that's what makes her one of the greatest English Authors of her time, the adversity she had to over come alone, simply because she was a woman, and not a man but in her story she pretty much wrote it as a juxtaposition and went along with what society viewed women as, with a little tweak of her picky