Jane Austen Research Paper

Jane Austen’s works and the views she portrayed in those works were widely influential not only in her time, but also in today’s times. Her novels not only exhibit monumental adaptations to the way women “could” act, but also how they were seen. She places advocacy for women’s rights throughout her novels in the forms of specific characters, through satire, and of the events that occur in her novels. Jane Austen influenced the changing social values surrounding feminism in the nineteenth century in her novels such as Emma. The novel Emma, features a young, adventurous girl in her twenties and embodies some key modern principles that Jane Austen was trying to incorporate into her works.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century women

The women who did work worked as factory workers, as agricultural workers, or sold food, drinks, or flowers, or were fortune tellers. A large amount of women who worked were employed to wealthy families as domestic workers. These jobs were hard and women were paid much less compared to their male counterparts due to the fact they could only get lower paying jobs and because women were paid less for the same jobs as men. Women in the lower class were sometimes forced into prostitution to simply live and it became a huge problem in the early nineteenth century. If women became prostitutes, they were often stuck in that life until their’s ended. Women could only get unskilled jobs due to the fact that they were barred from getting profession jobs and because they were not able to receive any higher education. Women were writers however, but they often had to use pseudonyms as a result that people would often not print or buy books written by women. (Women of 19th and 20th century England: A study of

She was the seventh child and second daughter born to George and Cassandra Austen. Austen had a good home life where learning and creativity were encouraged which brought about her writing talent and interest. Austen also got an education which many girls did not get at that time; however, her and her sister were sent to boarding school and were only taught foreign language, dancing, and music. Her father and brothers also taught her a lot, which helped with her writing. Even when Austen was younger, she loved writing and reading. Jane had access to her father’s immense library and creative family who often put on plays and wrote stories. Jane was lucky to have such an open family life which fostered creativity and by the time she was in her teens, she was writing stories and sharing them with her family. In turn, within a few years she would be writing seriously and by the time she was in her twenties she began to write what would be her most well known novel- Pride and Prejudice. (Warren