As a fellow Jane Austen stan, I found it only fitting to write about her on my blog. I know for us ladies and gents she is one of the OG icons and her words are truly tear-jerking.
Born December 16, 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, England and inevitably died July 18, 1817 she was an incredible writer or novelist as she might like better. She has four infamous novels to her name; Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815). She vividly depicted English middle-class life during the early 19th century. Her novels defined the era’s novel of manners, but they also became timeless classics that remained critical and popular successes for over two centuries after her death.
Her love life was quite the drama itself! In 1802 it seems that Jane agreed to marry Harris Bigg-Wither, the 21-year-old heir of a Hampshire family, but the next morning changed her mind. There were also a number of mutually contradictory stories connecting her with someone she fell in love with but died soon after. Many believe through her words in her novel she had no short experience of love and definitely knew what she was talking about. She originally had all of her novels anonymous because it was frowned upon to be a female writer back then.
Her later life was not that romantic; suffering from bile, but the symptoms make possible a modern clinical assessment that she was suffering from Addison disease. Her condition fluctuated, but in April she made her will, and in May she was taken to Winchester to be under the care of an expert surgeon. She died on July 18, and six days later she was buried in Winchester Cathedral.
You may have read her books, as I did… religiously OR you have seen the movies made from her novels. Sense and Sensibility (1995) staring Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, and Hugh Grant directed by Ang Lee, Emma (1996) staring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Toni Collette, and Greta Scacchi directed by Douglas McGrath, Mansfield Park (1999) staring Embeth Davidth, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola, and Frances O’Connor directed by Patricia Rozema, and my personal favorite Pride and Prejudice (2005) staring Keira Knightley, Matthew McFadyen, Brenda Blethyn, and Donald Sutherland directed by Joe Wright.
There is something so comforting and romantic and her novels and now move adaptions that bring generations back to her writings!
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