Jane Austen (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Nokes
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1770-1820
- Setting: Primarily England, with brief episodes in India and France
- Principal Characters: Jane Austen, Cassandra Austen, George Austen, Cassandra Leigh Austen, Philadelphia Austen Hancock, Eliza Hancock
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Self-discovery, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Rural or country life, Novelists, England or English people, Women’s issues, Women, Work or workers
- Locales: France, England, India
Jane Austen’s novels present English country gentry of the early nineteenth century in such tartly intelligent and witty terms that her subjects are both particular to their time and place and universally human. She has never lacked for readers since Sense and Sensibility first appeared in 1811. Born in 1775, Austen died in 1817, having completed six novels, of which four had been published at the time of her death.
The events of her life, as measured against the turbulent backdrop of history, were slight. The American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the...
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