Jane Austen

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Jane Austen

What do you already know about Jane Austen?

Jane Austen

• 1775-1817
• First woman writer who made a name for herself
• Still one of the best loved
• Hamshire & Bath
• Upper middle class
• Well-to-do Gentry

Jane Austen

• Common Sense
• Good manners & Sincerity
• Stupidity and vanity
• Irony 

What is irony?

Jane Austen

• Irony ->  the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning

• "He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected."

Jane Austen

“Brandon is just the kind of man,” said Willoughby one day, when they were talking of him together, “whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.”

“That is exactly what I think of him,” cried Marianne.

Jane Austen

• Ironic portrayal of characters 
• distinctive tone of her novels
• Personal prose style
• natural dialogue
• excellently constructed plots

What was the difference between plot and story?

Jane Austen

• Central theme in Austen's work:
• Demands of society vs wishes of the individual

• Characters behaviours clash with common ideas -> character development

Jane Austen

• Sense and Sensibility -> 1811 (first novel, extract)
• Pride and Prejudice -> 1813 (most popular) 
• Mansfield Park -> 1814
• Emma -> 1816
• Persuasion -> 1816 
• Last three are considered her best works

Sense and Sensibility

• By a Lady
• Dashwood Sisters, Elinor (19), marianne (16), Margaret (13)

• Half brother John
• £3000 = £286,377

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70odQG3TpRM