Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Jane Austenwas an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels which interpret, critique and comment upon the life of the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Her most highly praised novel during her lifetime was Pride and Prejudice, her second published novel. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favorable social standing and economic security...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 December 1775
CitySteventon, England
On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Nobody is on my side, nobody takes part with me: I am cruelly used, nobody feels for my poor nerves.
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.
She was determined, as she felt it to be her duty, to try to overcome all that was excessive.
. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.
She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart . . .
Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor
My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming--one other person at least.
There are people, the more you do for them, the less they do for themselves.
Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.
She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.
Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation – Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves.