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Biography

Name: Jane Austen
Birth Date: 1775
Death Date: 1817
Place of Birth: Steventon, England
Place of Death: Winchester, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, novelist, writer

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Biography of Jane Austen
1,266 words, approx. 4 pages
The English writer Jane Austen (1775-1817) was one of the most important novelists of the 19th century. In her intense concentration on the thoughts and feelings of a limited number of characters, Jane Austen creates as profound an understanding and as...
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Biography of Jane Austen
16,199 words, approx. 54 pages
Jane Austen is one of the few novelists in world literature who is regarded as a "classic" and yet is widely read. As the contemporary novelist Fay Weldon puts it, for generations of students and the educated reading public in many countries, Austen's...
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Biography of Jane Austen
12,465 words, approx. 42 pages
Jane Austen stands not only as a novelist central to the Romantic period but as one of the supreme prose fiction writers of all literature written in English. Her many admirers include Henry James and Virginia Woolf, both of whom she influenced. Yet...
 


Quotations
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Jane Austen Quotes
1,896 words, approx. 6 pages
Jane Austen ( 1775-12-16 – 1817-07-18 ) was an English novelist who recorded the domestic manners of the landed gentry. She is known for her classically understated style and sly, ironic humour. See also: Sense and Sensibility (1811) Pride and...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Austen, Jane
2,247 words, approx. 8 pages
(born Dec. 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, Eng.—died July 18, 1817, Winchester, Hampshire) English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life. Austen created the...
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Austen, Jane
156 words, approx. 1 pages
(born Dec. 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, Eng.—died July 18, 1817, Winchester, Hampshire) English novelist. The daughter of a rector, she lived in the circumscribed world of minor landed gentry and country clergy that she was to use in her...
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Austen, Jane Summary
34,631 words, approx. 115 pages
Austen is best known as a consummate novelist of manners. The author of six novels, Austen depicted a small slice of English life during the Regency period, a time marked by the Napoleonic Wars, the early growth of the English Empire, and an economic...
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Jane Austen Information
8,587 words, approx. 29 pages
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was a British novelist whose realism, biting social commentary, and masterful use of free indirect speech, burlesque, and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely-read and best-loved...
 


News and Journals
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The Economist (US)
Jane Austen.
10/18/1997: 947 words, approx. 3 pages
JANE AUSTEN. By Claire Tomalin. Viking; 384 pages; K20. JANE AUSTEN: A LIFE. By David Nokes. Farrar Straus & Giroux; 578 pages; $35 JANE AUSTEN had a good friend called Anne Sharpe-a strong, self-reliant school teacher. To Anne she wrote, early...
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The Economist (US)
Jane Austen: A Life.
10/18/1997: 947 words, approx. 3 pages
JANE AUSTEN. By Claire Tomalin. Viking; 384 pages; K20. JANE AUSTEN: A LIFE. By David Nokes. Farrar Straus & Giroux; 578 pages; $35 JANE AUSTEN had a good friend called Anne Sharpe-a strong, self-reliant school teacher. To Anne she wrote, early...
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The New York Observer
Plain Jane
9/25/2007: 588 words, approx. 2 pages
THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB RUNNING TIME 106 minutesDIRECTED BY Robin SwicordSTARRING Maria Bello, Lynn Redgrave, Kathy Baker, Jimmy Smits Robin Swicord’s The Jane Austen Book Club, from her own screenplay, based on the eponymous novel by Karen Joy Fowler, succeeds only partially and only...
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AP News
Gillian Anderson to host `Masterpiece'
12/11/2007: 265 words, approx. 1 pages
After 37 years, PBS' "Masterpiece Theatre" is getting spruced up.The revered anthology series will be split into three mini-seasons, each with its own theme and host — one of whom is Gillian Anderson, already familiar to "Masterpiece" fans for her 2006 performance as Lady Dedlock...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Julia Epstein
49,734 words, approx. 166 pages
In the following essay, Epstein discusses the major aspects of Austen's life and career, focusing on biographical, textual, and critical avenues of exploration into the author's enduring popularity.
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Critical Essay by Maggie Lane
13,837 words, approx. 46 pages
In the following essay, Lane traces the changing customs governing dining practices in Austen's time and explains how various foodways served as indications of social class.
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Critical Essay by Maggie Lane
10,807 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following essay, Lane discusses the nineteenth-century notion that an appetite for food was associated with both greed and sexual desire and thus considered indelicate in females.
Featured Essays
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Religious Interpretations of Jane Austin Novels
4,989 words, approx. 17 pages
If one can consider the idea that Jane Austen's fictional worlds contain a worldview that is not only compatible with Christianity, but one that can be profitably examined from a specifically traditional Christian perspective, then there is room for a religious interpretation of Austen's novels.


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