1. JANE AUSTEN
UNCHANGED
THROUGHOUT TIME
By
Sarah Abrecht
ENG 1102 XTIJ

2. “THE WORLD IN WHICH HER NAME WOULD BECOME
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AND HIGH-SPRUNG PHAETONS; OF JOHN NASH
TERRACES AND THOMAS HOPE INTERIORS: OF THE
P R I N C E S S O F WA L E ’ S A D U L T E R Y S C A N D A L S A N D
N A P O L E O N ’ S D E F E AT AT WAT E R L O O ; O F
B A L L R O O M S , B AT T L E F I E L D S A N D B Y R O N I C
HEROES.”
J.Ross

3. “Jane Austen’s novels are about intelligent women who take themselves seriously, but
not solemnly. Each of the Austen heroines possesses an implicit moral system and an
impulse toward improvement that seems to require o exposition or justification, no
wrestling with ethical dilemmas, no laborious arrivals at the gates of perception. A
steadiness of nerve prevails. The perfection of behavior, the refinement of sensibility-
these were the natural conditions Jane Austen urged upon her men and women and
upon us, her readers.” C.Shields

4.  “ those who do appreciate her novels will think no praise too high
for them, while those who do not, will marvel at the infatuation of
her admirers; for no one cares moderately for Jane Austen’s works.”
• C.Harman

5. JANE AUSTEN
 Jane Austen is one of the most  Jane Austen’s insight into that world
celebrated classical authors in the world. is what kept her readers of the novels so
Her six novels have been repeatedly engrossed, she encountered her world
reproduced into every language imaginable. with humor and cunning remarks.
 Her novels transcend time, it does not
 Jane Austen’s writings are important
matter that the novels are set in the Regency
insights in the interaction between men
Era; the tales of courtship and social and
and women while within the restrictions
familial expectations have vastly remained
unchanged throughout the centuries. of societies rules.

6. JANE’S WORKS
 Sense & Sensibility (1811)
 Both novels focus on the lives of strong young
 Pride & Prejudice (1813)
heroines, their struggles and thoughts of their future
 Emma (1815) circumstance in life.
 Persuasion (1818)
 Northanger Abby (1817)  These two novels have been so popular
throughout time that there have been many writers
 Mansfield Park (1814)
and readers that have wanted to know more about the
characters after Jane Austen’s stories have ended.
 Austen’s most famous novels are Sense
and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.  Many people have wanted it so much that they
go as far as to write their own version of what they
believe happened after Jane Austen’s story ended.

7. JANE’S NOVELS

8. WRITINGS
 Jane Austen’s writings have influenced so many people, and many
people can find parts of themselves in the characters in her novels.
 The influence that she carries is so great that there have been other
books created to extoll the effect of her novels on the readers.
 Numerous biographers have written about Jane Austen’s life and her
own experiences that are revealed in her writings.
 Some of the biographies themselves have become as popular as Jane
Austen’s writings herself.

9. WRITINGS CONTINUED
 Jane Austen’s readers are able to invoke in them power feelings
through her characters trial and tribulations.

11.  Born: December 16, 1775
 Died: July 18, 1817
 One of Seven children
 Never married
 Cause of death tuberculosis

12. An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She
is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may
exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a
lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Jane Austen