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Jane Austen
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Austen's novels are probabily the best examples of the novel of manners. This genre flourished in the 18 century and was centred on the analysis of the social conventions
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Austen was an outstanding figure because she was the first woman in England to trasform writing into a professional activity.
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Jane began to write at a very early age. When she was 14 years old she wrote Love and Friendship, a parody of a romantic fiction written as a series of love letters
Jane's life was uneventful. She did not marry but lived in an intellectually lively, socialising with local families. She travelled occasionally but not widely, vising London and Bath and her brothers' houses
1806
one year after her father died and left the family in financial difficulties, they moved to Southampton and in 1809 to her brother Edward's house in Chawton, a small village two kilometres from her birthplace where che wrote most of her works
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For a brief period Jane and her sister Cassandra attended boarding schools but financial problems in the family interrupted their formal education and they returnel to live with the family
wealthy people who interacyed in situations like balls, dinners and tea parties
Hernovels of manners were usually set in small and closed communities, the provincial middle class or the country gentry, a world which the author knew well because it was her own world
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