Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775-1817). British novelist. A shrewd ob-server of people, she only settled seriously to writing after the death of her father, a clergyman, in 1805. Sense and Sensibility (1811) at once brought her a large readership. All her novels, including Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1815), were written in the family
“ ‘Oh! it is only a novel!…’in short, only some work in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1818)” sitting-room at Chawton in Hampshire and hidden when visitors called. Her novels are witty and ironic and provide interesting information about the everyday life of middle-class families in the early 19th century.
