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Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, 1813
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Furst, Lilian R. |
| Copyright Year | 1984 |
| Abstract | SECTION B – THE AUTHOR Task 2: Read the text and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F); correct the false ones. Jane Austen was born in 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire in the south of England, where her father was a priest. She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight children. She started writing at a very early age and published a story called The Three Sisters when she was just eighteen years old. She and her family moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. When he died four years later, she, her mother and her sister moved back to Hampshire. While events in neighbouring France were determining the shape of Europe with post-revolutionary France expanding under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte, Jane Austen sat down in a sleepy Hampshire village to write romantic fiction. Nevertheless, events in Europe created a backdrop to most of her stories. She wrote her most famous works in the last ten years of her life; Sense and Sensibility was published in 1811, followed by Pride and Prejudice in 1813. Although her works were well known in her lifetime, she published them anonymously, so she was not a famous public figure. Two years after Napoleon met his Waterloo in 1815, she died. While most of her stories revolve around her well-mannered heroine finding and marrying a suitable man, Jane Austen herself never actually married. |
| Starting Page | 49 |
| Ending Page | 67 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-04400-9_3 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://fikus.omska.cz/~nemeckoj/doc/AJ/Pride%20and%20Prejudice.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04400-9_3 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
