Jane Austen

Jane Austen was a British writer born on December 16, 1775 in Steventon, Great Britain into a middle-class family that favoured education, reading, and writing. Austen's upbringing corresponded to the prevailing image of women at that time: the traditional role of marriage, housewife, mother, and hostess.

This environment accompanied her all her life since neither she nor her sister Cassandra married, likewise they never left their home due to the death of their father in 1805 so Jane had to take care of family matters, that is, she was responsible for managing the house.

Despite scarce financial resources and little mass production of literature at that time, Jane was able to finance the printing of her works and even later was able to earn small sums of money from her publications.

In the 19th century, Austen went into hiding to write and published her first two works (Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice) under a pseudonym. Very quickly, her novels were successful and renewed the expectations of the readers, happy to discover a staging of feelings that was both realistic and ironic. Until the second half of the 19th century, critics finally recognized her as a great English writer. Jane Austen is undoubtedly the object of a true cult and her heroines such as Elizabeth Bennet or Emma Woodhouse are outstanding personalities, emblems of a feminine culture.

Posting anonymously for a long period of time, Austen kept her private life and wrote until the end of her life in 1817. After all, there is no doubt that today's readers are seduced by the love affairs of the characters, as well as the richness of the feelings portrayed.

Other titles of the author: Mansfield Park, Emma, ​​Northanger Abbey, Persuasion.