Jane Austen
Life (1775-1817)
educated by her father at home
spent with her family, never married
interest in reading, literature and writing
Works
Sense and Sensibility
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Emma
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
romantic comedy
Themes
Style
position of woman
relationship between love and marriage
relationship between individual and society
ordinary events of life
balls
tea parties
walks
psychological insight of characters
microcosm
irony
happy ending
dialogues
omniscient narrator
set in Longbourn
characters
Mr Darcy
self-centred, haughty, unsociable
Elizabeth
Indipendent, proud of her values, intelligent
minor characters
caricatures, flat or ridiculous
journey towards self-awareness and self-knowledge, marriage, wealth, decorum
vividness of characters, dialogues, third-person narrator, epistolary technique, irony