Jane Austen
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” - Jane Austen. Austen was a Georgia era author. Some popular novels from her are Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. Most of Jane’s novels consists of irony, fairytale moments, and parodies of romantic fiction. Jane Austen was an ordinary girl growing up and ended up being one of the world’s best authors.
Jane was born on December 16,1775 in the Steventon Rectory in Hampshire. She had a pretty big family with seven siblings (six brothers and one sister) and her mother and father. Two of Jane’s brothers, Francis and Charles, were officers in the royal navy. She visited them in London which allowed her to
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Not only was Jane big reader, but her family was too. Jane actually got the title Pride and Prejudice from a phrase in Berney’s Cecilia. She also created the school in Emma based on the boarding school that Cassandra attended. So, Jane was influenced by her family and surroundings.
Unfortunately, Jane’s father died in 1805, which cause her mother, sister, and herself to move from place to place. It took them four years for them to find a stable place to live. At the age of forty-one, Jane was diagnosed with what some might call “Addisons disease”. Addisons disease is when the ardenal glands don’t produce enough hormones. She died a year later in 1817. Although Jane died young, her brother did not let her go unrecognized. He revealed Jane was an author. In 2002, BBC poll voted Jane No. 70 on a list of “100 Most Famous Britians of all Time”.
Jane was an incredible author and showed incredible determination since she never married and had kids. Even though she was never able to have a family of her own, she was family oriented and was extremely close to her siblings. Austen was obviously highly educated benefiting from her father’s library and by the knowledge surrounding her. Jane has gifted us with her many novels and she will never be