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
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.
…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…
…each found her greatest safety in silence…
She was stronger alone…
You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.
She wished such words unsaid with all her heart
…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.
Time, time will heal the wound.
She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation