Jane Austen

Great writer who is characterized by making works where the protagonists were strong and intelligent in a style that mixed irony, romance, comedy and drama. Jane Austen found in Emma, ​​her first title, the necessary push to cross borders. Austen also wrote books that have been adapted into film and television: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion.

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In 1801, the Austen moved to Bath and, after the head of the family died, in 1805, first to Southampton and then to Chawton, a town in Hampshire, where the writer wrote most of her novels. His was a life without great events, hardly anything to disturb the placidity of a petty-bourgeois and provincial existence; only very occasionally did he take the occasional trip to London. He did not get married either.

Peaceful, serene and balanced is also her way of novelizing, the meticulous and subtle irony with which she describes the environment that surrounds her, that of the high rural class of the south of England. The narrative intrigue is usually of little importance, which is why the interest of his works resides in the different psychological nuances of his characters, interpreted with great acuity, and in the kind and comprehensive description, but not lacking in malicious irony, of the social environment in which he places his creatures, which is none other than his own, that of the wealthy bourgeoisie.

The six novels he wrote should be grouped into two different periods. During the first, a series of titles came to light, some of which took more than fifteen years to edit. This was the case of Pride and Prejudice (Pride and Prejudice), considered the best of his novels, the writing of which he began in 1796, although it would not be published until 1813. In it, Austen tells the story of the five Bennet sisters and the tribulations of their respective affairs.

MORE IMPORTANT WORKS

Pride and Prejudice

Emma

Northanger Abbey

Lady Susan

Mansfield Park

Persuasion