![]() ![]() In the interest of protecting reputations from Jane's penchant for honesty and forthrightness, Cassandra omitted details of illnesses, unhappiness and anything she considered unsavory. She wanted to ensure that the "younger nieces did not read any of Jane's sometimes acid or forthright comments on neighbours or family members". Cassandra Austen destroyed the bulk of the letters she received from her sister, burning or otherwise destroying them. Only about 160 of the approximately 3,000 letters Austen wrote have survived and been published. The scant biographical information about Austen comes from her few surviving letters and sketches her family members wrote about her. Last page of letter from Austen to her sister, Cassandra, 11 June 1799 Her novels have inspired many films, from 1940's Pride and Prejudice to 1995's Sense and Sensibility and Love & Friendship in 2016. ![]() She has inspired a large number of critical essays and literary anthologies. In 1869, fifty-two years after her death, her nephew's publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced a compelling version of her writing career and supposedly uneventful life to an eager audience. They gradually gained wide acclaim and popular readership. A significant transition in her reputation occurred in 1833 when her novels were republished in Richard Bentley's Standard Novels series, illustrated by Ferdinand Pickering, and sold as a set. She also left behind three volumes of juvenile writings in manuscript, the short epistolary novel Lady Susan, and the unfinished novel The Watsons.Īusten gained status after her death her six full-length novels have since rarely been out of print. She wrote two other novels- Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818-and began another, eventually titled Sanditon, but died before its completion. The anonymously published Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815), brought modest success but little fame in her lifetime. Her use of social commentary, realism and biting irony have earned her acclaim among critics and scholars. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Jane Austen ( / ˈ ɒ s t ɪ n, ˈ ɔː s-/ 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
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