Презентация по теме "Романтическая проза. Джейн Остин, биография и литературная карьера"

The Romantic Prose. Jane Austen, her biography and literary career. Literary works.

Early Life. Education. Death.

Jane Austen was born on the 16th of December in 1775, in Stevenson, Hampshire, England. She was an intelligent daughter of George Austen, a famous  cleric at one of the Anglican parishes. Her mother, Cassandra Leigh, was a wealthy lady. Young Jane, being close to her father, learned many things from him. Moreover, George’s extensive library helped her polish her reading and analytical skills.

She began to read and write at a very young age. She learned the basic skills at home. To get a formal education, Jane was sent to Oxford in 1783 to be educated by Miss Ann Cowley, where she stayed for a short time. Later, in 1875, Jane and her sister were sent to Reading Abbey Girls School ,  where they were exposed to needlework, dancing, French, music, and drama. After her return, her father and brothers guided her in the educational field. The private theatre had always been an essential part for Austen as her friends and family staged a series of plays, including  The Rivals  by Richard Sheridan .  Inspired with the literary efforts of her family and friends, she started writing herself at the age of eleven.

Watercolor of Jane Austen by her sister,  Cassandra , 1804 .

Jane led a successful life, and at the age of forty-one, her health began to decline. Despite facing illness, she made efforts to continue to write and edited older works as well as started a new piece called  The Brothers,  which published after her death under the title of  Senditon.  The world lost this precious gem on the 18 th  of July in 1877 in Winchester, England.

Cottage in Chawton, Hampshire where Austen lived during her last eight years of life, now  Jane Austen's House Museum

Last page of letter from Austen to her sister, Cassandra, 11 June 1799

Writing Career

Jane Austen, a towering figure of the 17 th century, started writing literary pieces at a very young. With the compositions of plays and short stories, she laid the foundation of her long literary career. At first, she wrote pieces for her own and her family’s amusements with the subjects of anarchic fantasies of female power or feminism and illicit behavior. Later, in 1970, she started writing novels and came up with  Love and Friendship  followed by  The History of England,  presenting the historical and romantic fiction. Using the framework of letter writing in these fictions, she unveiled her wit and disliked for romantic hysteria and sensibility, which remained evident in her other writings, too. Later, she produced an epistolary  story,  Lady Susan , presenting the life of a female who manipulates others using her sexuality and intelligence. Marked with the techniques of letter writing, her other major work,  Elinor and Marianne,  which was later drafted as  Sense and Sensibility,  appeared in 1811. She produced many masterpieces throughout her life including,  Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park,  and  Emma.

Jane Austen stands among the most influential figures of world literature. Her distinctive literary style relies mainly on a blend of parody, free indirect speech, irony, and presentation of literary realism. Jane used burlesque and parody in her writings to critique the portrayal of women in the 18th century. Her pieces are far from the world of imagination as she focused on presenting the ordinary people realistically. The recurring themes in most of her literary pieces are cultural, identity, love, marriage, and pride.

Literary works

Jane Austen, with her unique abilities, left a profound impact on global literature, and even after 200 hundred years of her demise, she continues to win love for her biting approach on diverse tangles of this passion.  

Some Important Works

Best Novels: Pride and Prejudice (The 1 st picture), Emma (The 2 nd picture) Mansfield Park, Persuasion,  and  Northanger Abbey (the 3 rd picture).

Other Works:  Besides novels, she also tried her hands on shorter and non-fiction too. Some of them include  Plan of Novel, Juvenilia- Volume the First, Juvenilia- V0lume the Second, Juvenilia- Volume the Third, Letters, and Poems.

List of sources

• Jane Austen -Biography and Literary Works of Jane Austen
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen
• https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Категория:Экранизации_произведений_Джейн_Остин

Illustrations:

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• https://newbookshop.ru/commodity/emma-dzhejn-osten-eksmo-2018/
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