Презентация "Jane Austen"

Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)

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Family

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 in the town of Steventon (Hampshire). The winter of 1776 was particularly harsh, and only on April 5 the girl was baptized in the local church under the name Jane. In addition to Jane, there were six boys and one girl (Cassandra) in the family. Jane Austen was the penultimate child.

Her father, George Austin, was a parish priest. He served as rector of Anglican parishes in Steventon and nearby Dean. He came from an old Kentish family, was an enlightened and widely educated man. His wife, Cassandra Lee, also belonged to an old but impoverished family. Austen's parents were married two months after Cassandra's father died, on April 26, 1764, at St. Mary's Church. Svitina in Bath. They left for Hampshire the same day.

Brothers

Despite the high infant mortality in those years, all of George and Cassandra Lee's children survived. The eldest son, James, had a penchant for literary pursuits. They preferred not to talk about the second son, George, in the family: he was mentally disabled, he never learned to speak. For his sake, Jane studied the alphabet of the dumb. The third son, Edward, was adopted by rich, childless relatives of the Austin Knights, which opened up wide opportunities for him.

The brightest and most romantic fate was that of Jane Austen's fourth, beloved brother, Henry Thomas. He was married to Eliza de Feyd, the widow of a French nobleman who ended his days on the guillotine. Eliza had a lot of influence on Jane. It is to Eliza that she owes a good knowledge of the French language and French authors.

Sister

But Jane had a special friendship with her sister Cassandra. With her, she shared all her plans and initiated her into her secrets. Cassandra, of course, knew the name of the person to whom Jane Austen was faithful, Jane died in Cassandra's arms.

Cassandra, like her sister, never got married. Her chosen one, the young priest Thomas Fowle, died of yellow fever in the West Indies, where he went in the hope of earning money for the upcoming wedding. When he died, Cassandra was twenty-four years old.

Juvenility

Jane Austen loved dresses, balls, fun. Her letters are full of descriptions of the styles of hats, stories about new dresses and gentlemen. Fun was combined in her with a natural mind and a decent education, especially for a girl of her circle and position, who had not even graduated from school.

In the period from 1783 to 1786, together with her sister Cassandra, she studied at Oxford, Southampton and Reading. Jane had no luck with schools; in the first, she and Cassandra suffered from the domineering temper of the headmistress and almost died after contracting typhus. Another school in Reading, on the contrary, was run by a very good-natured person, but the knowledge of the students was the last concern of her life. After returning his daughters home, George Austin decided to take up their education himself and was very successful in this. Skillfully directing their reading, he instilled in the girls a good literary taste, taught them to love classical authors, whom he knew perfectly by his own occupation. The formation of Jane Austen's personality took place in an intellectual setting — among books, constant conversations about literature, discussions of what was read and what was happening.

Frame from the movie «Pride and Prejudice»

The letters provided Jane Austen with invaluable material for her novels. And although there is no story about wars or revolutions in any of them, and the action is never taken outside of England, the influence of what is happening around is especially noticeable, for example, in her last novel "Arguments of Reason", where there are many sailors who have just returned to land after military operations, distinguished themselves in battles, sailed in The West Indies. However, Austen did not consider herself competent to write in detail about the hostilities and the beginning of the colonial expansion of England.

Jane Austen never married. When Jane was 20 years old, she had an affair with a neighbor, Thomas Lefroy, the future Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and in those years a law student. However, the marriage of young people would be impractical, since both families were relatively poor and hoped to use the marriages of their offspring to improve their material and social status, so Jane and Tom had to part. At the age of thirty, Jane put on a cap, thereby announcing to the world that from now on she was an old maid who had said goodbye to hopes for personal happiness, although an offer had been made to her once. The Austins had never been rich, and after their father's death, their financial circumstances became even more straitened. Jane sheathed the family and helped her mother with the housework.

Frame from the movie «Pride and Prejudice»

Works

According to a study by the Bank of England, for three novels Jane earned 575 pounds after taxes, which is equal to 45 thousand pounds or 3.6 million rubles at the exchange rate of 2019, and her less popular novel "Mainsfield Park" cost more (more than 310 pounds) than "Feeling and Sensitivity" (110-140 pounds) and "Pride and Prejudice" (140-160 pounds) combined. In July 1813 and 1815, Jane invested in the amount of 600 pounds on the deposit of the Bank of England "Navy Fives", which guaranteed five percent of income per year. The income from "Emma" is not known, but it is assumed that it is more than 575 pounds.

Death

The writer died on July 18, 1817 in Winchester, where she went to be treated for Addison's disease. Before her death, she did not have time to finish her last novel, Sanditon. The real recognition came to Jane Austen only after her death.

She is buried in Winchester Cathedral.

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