His wife also lacks an inheritance, so his family will be destitute upon his death.

Bennet of Longbourn estate has five daughters, but his property is entailed and can only be passed to a male heir. Its humour lies in its honest depiction of manners, education, marriage, and money during the Regency era in Great Britain.Mr. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. The second half of the 20th century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a Janeite fan culture.Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen in 1813. Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public, and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.Īusten's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism.

From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815), she achieved success as a published writer. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she tried then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years until she was about 35 years old.

The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer.

She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Īusten lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry.

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