Jane Austen
(1775 - 1817)
English novelist.
Jane Austen: Introduction
Jane Austen: Principal Works
Jane Austen: Primary Sources
Jane Austen: General Commentary
Jane Austen: Title Commentary
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Jane Austen - (1775 - 1817)
English novelist.
Originally written between 1798 and 1799, but not published until 1818, Northanger Abbey is considered Jane Austen's first significant work of fict...
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The English writer Jane Austen (1775-1817) was one of the most important novelists of the 19th century.In her intense concentration on the thoughts and feelings of a limited number of characters, Jane...
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged," wrote Jane Austen in the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice, "that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." With this st...
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Jane Austen is one of the few novelists in world literature who is regarded as a "classic" and yet is widely read. As the contemporary novelist Fay Weldon puts it, for generations of students and the ...
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Biography EssayJane Austen stands not only as a novelist central to the Romantic period but as one of the supreme prose fiction writers of all literature written in English. Her many admirers include ...
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Is there the possibility for a religious interpretation of Jane Austen's novels? Though Austen never directly approaches religion, critics have speculated whether or not there are underlying religiou...
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