“Completely and Perfectly, Incandescently Happy.” Jane Austen
About the Author
Jane Austen (16 December 1775-18 July 1817) was an eminent novelist of the Victorian era. She is primarily known for her six major novels. The novels interpret critique and comment upon the British at the end of the 18th century. Her works critique the novels of the sensibility and are part of the 19th-century literary realism. She uses biting irony, realism, humor, and social commentary in her work. She was born in Steventon, England. Her novels have inspired many films.
Famous Works of Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma
- She completed six novels among which, 4 of them were published before her death.
- Austen’s works were published anonymously because female novelists were frowned upon.
- Austen’s plots often explore the favorable social position and economic certainty of women.
- Around 1816, Austen began to suffer from a painful illness, which was never diagnosed
Famous Quotes by Jane Austen
It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
- Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
- There is nothing I would not do for those who are my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not to pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
- It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
