Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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Jane AUSTEN: Who was she?
Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire in 1775 and died in 1817 . She was the seventh child of Reverend George Austen and his wife Cassandra Leigh. She spent 25 years in Stevenson and then moved to Kent, where her brother lived. In 1801, her parents retired and moved to Bath: Jane and her sister, Cassandra, went with them. After ther father's death, in 1805, they went to Southampton, and then in 1809 to Chawton.
She devoted herself to writing and the draft of Pride and Prejudice, started in the 1770's, was revised between 1810 and 1817.
Jane Austen fell ill in 1816 and, as nothing could be done for her illness, she died in 1817.
Bibliography
- Sense and Sensibility (published 1811)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Mansfield Park (1814)
- Emma (1816)
- Northanger Abbey (1817) posthumous
- Persuasion (1817) posthumous
Read Pride and Prejudice On line
- Gutenberg Project - book downloadable
- 19th novels.com
- romance-books.classic-literature.co.uk
Jane Austen on the Web
http://www.pemberley.com/ - one of the largest community dealing with Jane Austen:
- a discussion board
- Pride and Prejudice FAQ
- List of Characters
- Chronology of Pride and Prejudice
- Important places in P&P (with a map)
The Jane Austen Society of the United Kingdom, society founded in 1940 aiming at raising funds to preserve the Cottage in the village of Chawton
The Jane Austen Society of Australia
The American Society of Jane Austen , a society of people who have an interest in Jane Austen studies.
The Jane Austen Society of North America , society founded in 1979. There, you will find book reviews and the Jane Austen Essay contest (Beyond Drawing Room Conversation: Letters in Pride and Prejudice , The Masculine Pen: Character and Correspondence in Pride and Prejudice, "To Be Fond Of Dancing Was A Certain Step Towards Falling In Love": The Function Of Dance In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
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