Jane Austen Research Paper

Jane Austen was an English writer that was influenced by her personal background because her family and her experience of the world became a key factor to her writing. In her lifetime she published four novels,

Austen’s affectionate family’s circle provided a stimulating context for her novels. Her experience was carried beyond Stevenson rectory by an extensive network of relationships by blood and friendship. Jane Austen was born in the Hampshire village of Stevenson, where her father, the Reverend George Austen, was rector. She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight—six boys and two girls. Her closest companion throughout her life was her elder sister, Cassandra; neither Jane nor Cassandra married. Their father was

She was the first writer that gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life. It was this world—of the minor landed gentry and the country clergy, in the village, the neighborhood, and the country town, with occasional visits to Bath and to London—that she was to use in the settings, characters, and subject matter of her novels. Jane

Austen’s most influential writers were two specific people those being Maria Edgeworth, known as the Irish Jane Austen, being one of the most influential writers in history, the other influential writer was novelist Frances Burney, he was a wrote about politics of society, employing satire and wit. She wanted to

Critics on Jane Austen’s works are along the lines of her work being bad and very depressing, a writer who thought so was Mark Twain who said “I could read [Poe’s] prose on salary, but not Jane’s. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.” Ralph Waldo Emerson said “I am at a loss to understand why people hold

Miss Austen’s novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in

… Suicide is more respectable.”

Virginia Woolf admired Austen in some respect but not in the sense of literature, her critic of

Jane Austen was that “The chief reason why she does not appeal to us as some inferior writers do is that she has too little of the rebel in her composition, too little discontent, and of the vision with is the cause and the reward of discontent. She seems at times to have accepted life too calmly as she found it, and to anyone who reads her biographer or letters it is plain that life showed her a great deal that was smug, commonplace, and, in a bad sense of the word, artificial…. It happens very seldom, but still it does happen, that we feel that the play of her spirit has been hampered by such obstacles; that she believes in them as well as laughs at them, and that she is debarred from the most profound insight into human nature by the respect which she pays to some unnatural convention.”

WORK CITED

"Jane Austen." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 22 Dec. 2016. school.eb.com/levels/high/article/Jane-Austen/11303. Accessed 7 Mar. 2018.