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Jane Austen(1775-1817)&e Gordon Byron(1788-1824)
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Life
Jane Austen was the daughter of a country clergyman, and passed all her life in doing small domestic duties in the countryside. She was educated at home and began to write at an early age. Austen was at her best in writing about young girls, because she understood them astonishingly well.
Her works were later published anonymously(匿名的) due to the prejudice against women writers then. She died in Winchester.
POSITION IN ENGLISH HISTORY
It was Jane Austen who brought the English novels, as an art of form, to its maturity and she had been regarded as one of the greateast of all novelists.
Although she lived in 19th century (Romantic Period), she was a realistc writer. She upheld the traditional ideas of order,reason,proportion and gravefulness in novel writing.
Austen is universally regarded as the founder of the novel which deal with unimportant middle-class people.
Major Works
In her lifelong career, Jane Austen wrote altogether plete novels.
Major Works
Sense and Sensibility(1811)
Pride and Prejudice(1813)
Northanger Abbey(1818)
Mansfield Park(1814)
Emma(1815)
Persuasion (1818)
《理智与情感》Her 1st novel
《傲慢与偏见》Most popular of her novels
《诺桑觉寺》1799年写完
《曼斯菲尔德庄园》
《爱玛》
《劝导》