Презентация на тему Jane Austen“First lady” of English literature

July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of

romantic fiction earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.

Main information

1775 in the village of Steventon, Hampshire. Here were

written her first novels: «Pride and Prejudice», «Sense and Sensibility», «Northanger Abbey», although they have not been published for a very long time. Her father, George Austen, was a priest. And her mother was from a noble, but impoverished family. Except Jane there were six boys and one girl.

Family

inventory of not dissipated maternal love transferred to the

numerous nieces and literary creations. She called the novel "Pride and Prejudice" "the beloved child".
According to a survey of modern authors who write romance novels, her book "Pride and Prejudice" is the best novel of the genre of all time, but in first time it was rejected by a publisher who found it boring and insignificant.

museum in the village of Chawton. Here the writer

Jane Austen spent the last eight years of his life writing "Mansfield Park", "Emma" and "Persuasion."

House Museum Jane Austen

an affair with the neighbor, Thomas Lefroyem, future Lord

the Supreme Judge of Ireland, and those years the law student. However marriage of young people would be impractical as both families were rather poor, therefore Jane and Tom have to split up with each other. Later she put on a cap, having declared thereby that from now she is the old maid, who said goodbye to hopes for personal happiness, though once the proposal was made to her.

Love story

(1814)
Emma (1815)
Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous)
Persuasion (1818, posthumous)
Short fiction
Lady Susan

(1794, 1805)

Unfinished fiction
The Watsons (1804)
Sanditon (1817)
Other works
Sir Charles Grandison (adapted play) (1793, 1800)
Plan of a Novel (1815)
Poems (1796-1817)
Prayers (1796-1817)
Letters (1796-1817)

List of works