jane austen
DESCRIPTION
JANE AUSTEN. CHILDHOOD. - born on December 16th 1775 in Steventon , a small village in southern England - t he 7 th of 8 children of the Reverend George Austen and his wife, Cassandra - educated mainly at home and never lived apart from her family - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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JANE AUSTEN
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CHILDHOOD
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- born on December 16th 1775 in Steventon, a small village in southern England
- the 7th of 8 children of the Reverend George Austen and his wife, Cassandra
- educated mainly at home and never lived apart from her family
- had a good education for a girl at that time
- inseparable from her 2 years elder sister, Cassandra and lived together all of their live
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-to amuse themselves Jane and her sister wrote and performed plays and charades
-Jane at the age of 8 and Cassandra 10, were sent for schooling with a tutor in Oxford
-after breaking out a typhoid fever both girls fell ill and their mother rushed them back to Steventon
- 2 years later they were sent for a boarding school again but the family did not have enough money
-at the age of 11 onwards Austen educated herself with books from her father's library, which he encouraged
- wrote her first novel at the age of 14, Love and Friendship
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JANE‘S SECRETS- enjoyed dancing- went to balls in many of the great houses in
the neighbourhood- loved the country , enjoyed long country
walks and had many Hampshire friend- she wished real life could be more like a novel- in 1801 the family moved away to Bath
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RomanticismEra of love , desire for freedom and hope The characters are from different social classesStories portraits fight between one person (a hero)
and other characters A hero doesn´t want to addapt to the world The stories are situated in romantic places like
castles , prisons , forests and finish tragically and sadly
A man is active , often fallen in love , is capable of murder only to gain his love
A woman is passive and not able to change the course of the world
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CREATION
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1811 Sense and Sensibility
1813 Pride and Prejudice
1814 Mansfield park
1815 Emma
1818 Northanger Abbey Persuasion and Sanditon (unfinished)
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Started writing novels in 1790, at the age of only 14, In Chawton
Although her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, (did not appear until 1811)
Pride and Prejudice -published two years later - 1813.
Combinates irony, humor and sophisticated observations between the classes
Works have gone on to inspire adaptations to the stage and film in 21st. century
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Her novels were not really appreciated until after her death. Two hundred years later these popular stories have been made into both television series and film.
Jane Austen
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Sense and Sensibility
Mrs. Dashwood with her 3 daughters has to find new home what is more she has problems with finding husbands to her children.
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Mrs. Bennet, mother of five daughters, has to find husbands for all of them.
Pride and Prejudice
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This is a story about Fancy Price. She grew up with Sir Thomas Bertram and his 3 children. She has a problem to get married for love or for money.
Mansfield Park
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Emma Woodhouse is very rich, pretty and clever. She is a matchmaker. Her matchmaking causes mistakes and unhappiness.
Emma
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It is a parody of gothic romances by Ann Radcliff. This story is about Catherine Morland and her crazy imagination and hobbies in romantic and scary books.
Northanger Abbey
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It‘s about Anne‘s life and her unfulfilled love to a poor boy. Lots of years later they meet again and their love always remains.
Persuasion and Sandition (unfinished)
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