The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste
The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste
Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family's amusement, as well as a novella,
Lady Susan
. Her first published novel was
Sense and Sensibility
, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by
Pride and Prejudice
,
Mansfield Park
and
Emma
. Austen died in 1817, and
Persuasion
and
Northanger Abbey
were published posthumously in 1818.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) was een Engelse romanschrijver die vooral bekend staat om haar werken die zich afspelen in de Engelse gentryklasse in de late 18e en vroege 19e eeuw. Haar werken, waaronder 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Pride and Prejudice' en 'Emma', zijn bekend om hun scherpe observaties van de maatschappij, de menselijke natuur en de sociale conventies van haar tijd.
