Jane Austen was an English novelist born in 1775 in Hampshire, England. She is widely considered one of the greatest writers of English literature. Austen is known for her six major novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Her novels are renowned for their wit and social commentary on the landed gentry of late 18th century England. Austen lived a quiet life and died in 1817, but her works have endured and inspired numerous film and television adaptations.

1. Biography of
Jane Austen

2. Personal Details
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3. Brief Introduction of Jane Austen
• She is one of the most widely read and best
loved writer In British literature.
• Jane Austen was born on 1775 in the small
village of stevention in Hampshire, England.
• Died :- 1817
• Jane Austen Was an English Novelist.
• She is known for her six Major Novels, which
interpret, critique and comment upon the
British landed gently at the end of the 18th
century.

4. Life and Family of
Jane Austen
• She was the 7th child of Rev. George
Austen.
• With her sisters she was educated at
home, and passed her life very quietly.
• She began to write at an early age, She
died , quietly as she had lived, at
Winchester.

5. Writing style of Jane Austen
● She uses Parody and Mokery for comic effect in her works.
● Austen’s plot often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of
favourable social standing and economic security.
● She stood between the Age of ‘Sense and Sensibility’.
● Jane Austen’s fictions are seemingly rife with missed opportunities.
● From her first published novel sense and sensibility to her last completed novel ,
Persuasion , the missed opportunities casts a shadow over Austen’s world that her
Narratives never quite succed in either dispelling or , even in persuasion, fully
redressing.
● Her use of biting irony, along with her realism, humour and social commentary,
have long earned her acclaim among critics, schoolars and popular audiance alike.

6. Major Works of Jane Austen
• Pride and prejudice
• Sense and Sensibility
• Emma
• Mansfield park
• Northanger Abbey
• Persuasion

7. Sense and sensibility
● Sense and Sensibility tells the story of the
impoverished Dashwood family, focusing
on the sisters Elinor and Marianne,
personification of good sense and
Sensibility.
● It is published anonymously in three
volumes in 1811 and that became a classic.
● The satirical, comic work offers a vivid
depiction of 19th century middle class life as
it follows the Romantic relationship of
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.

8. Pride and prejudice
• Pride and prejudice is a romantic novel of Manners
written by Jane Austen.
• Published :- 1813
• Pride and prejudice was well received by critics
and readers.
• The Novel is set in rural England in the early 19th
century.The novel follows the character
development of Elizabeth Bennet.
• It is a centers on the relationship between
Elizabeth Bennet and a Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich
aristocratic landowner.
• Pride and prejudice inspired verious stage, film and
television production.

9. Emma
• Emma is a forth novel of Jane Austen.
• Published:- 1815
• The novel Centres on Emma Woodhouse, a
young woman whose misplaced confidence in
her matchmaking abilities occasions several
romantic misadventures.

10. Themes in her work
● Morality
Morality , characterised by Manners, duty to society and religious seriousness is a central
theme of Austen’s work.
● Gender
Austen’s fiction, female characters comment on male authored texts and take charge of the
creation of their own worlds.
● Property and Class
Austen’s novels raise and explore a Verity of issues relating to money and property and the
power that they convey.
● Education and Reading
Austen’s plot are fundamentally about education; her heroine experience a “process through
which they come to see clearly themselves and their conduct” and therapy”become better

11. Conclusion
• Austen is often considered one of the
originators of the modern, interiorized novel
character.
• She was a bright, attractive little woman,
whose sunny qualities are unconsciously
reflected in all her works.
• Thus we can say that Austen was a important
novelist in English literature. Her
contribution in English literature is
noteworthy.

12. Works citation
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