读书报告，爱玛.doc

读书报告，爱玛
My Reflection On Emma
About the author:
Jane Austen was a major English novelist, who was born on 16 December, 1775, at the rectory in the village of Steventon, near Basingstoke, in Hampshire. She was the seventh of eight children and was educated mainly at home and never lived apart from her family.
She had a happy childhood amongst all her brothers and the other boys who lodged with the family and whom Mr. Austen tutored. From her old sister, Cassandra, she was inseparable. To amuse themselves, the children wrote and performed plays and charades, and even as a little girl Jane was encouraged to write. The reading that she did of the books in her father’s extensive library provided material for the short
satirical sketches she wrote as a girl.
At the age of 14 she wrote her first novel, Love and Friendship and then A
History of England by a partial, prejudiced and ignorant Histirian, together with other
very amusing Juvenilia. In her twenties Jane Austen wrote the novels that were later to be re-worked and published as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and
Northanger Abbey. After her father’s death in 1805, they all suffered financial
difficulties and were forced to rely on the charity of the Austen sons. It was alsoat that time, while on holiday in the West country, Jane fell in love, and when the young man died, she was deeply upset. Later she accepted a proposal of marriage from Harris Bigg-Wither, a wealthy landowner and brother to some of her closest friends, but she changed her mind the next morning and was greatly upset by the whole episode. She never married.
Then, in July, 1809, her brother Edward offered his mother and sisters a permanent home on his Chawton estate, which was a small but comfortable house that Jane Austen needed in order to write. In the seven and a half years that she lived in this house, she revised Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudiced and published
them(in 1811 and 1813) and then emb