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1、.,1,Jane Austen (1775-1817),.,2,Outline,1.Her Life 2. Love Experience 3.Major Works 4.Famous Sentences,.,3,Her Life,.,4,Jane Austen (1775-1817) An English writer, who first gave the novel its moderncharacter, through the treatment of everyday life., Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, wher

2、e her father was a rector. She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight. The first 25 years of her life，Austen spent in Hampshire. She was tutored at home. Her parents were avid readers and she received a broader education than many women of her time. On her fathers retirement,

3、 the family moved to Bath.,.,5,Austen focused on middle-class provincial life with humor and understanding. She depicted the life of minor landed gentry, country clergymen and their families, in which marriage mainly determined womens social status.,.,6,Most important for her were those little matte

4、rs, as Emma says, on which the daily happiness of private life depends., Although Austen restricted to family matters, and she passed the historical events of the Napoleonic wars, her wit and observant narrative touch has been inexhaustible delight to readers.,.,7, Of her six great novels, four were

5、 published anonymously during her lifetime., At her death on July 18, 1817 in Winchester, Austen was writing the unfinished Sanditon. Austen was buried in Winchester Cathedral.,.,8,Austens Home,She was buried in Winchester Cathedral,.,9,Love Experience,In 1796, Jane met Thomas Langlois Lefroy. Jane

6、Austen and the Irish lawyer who is smart fell in love with each other at the first sight, however, Jane Austen was expected to marry a guy,with a good fortune, while Thomas was a young man born in a poor family whose parents wanted their son to marry a rich woman and demanded him to come back to Ire

7、land.,.,10,Ever since then, they never met each other. Later, Thomas married a rich woman in a noble family at their familys wish and became the judge of the Supreme court of Ireland. Suffered from her first love, Austen chose to be single for all life and put all her energy in writing.,Thomass firs

8、t daughter was named Jane Christmas Lefroy. Scholars debate the derivation of this name. And most of them believe the name referred to Jane Austen. That is what is implied in the 2007 film Becoming Jane.,.,11,View On Love,In Jane Austens view , social status was not as essential as money , but was m

9、ore important in the happiness of everybody life . It affected the possibility of a marriage . However , in the last few years of her life , her view on social status changed . It was not as important to her as before . Some marriages in her novels were not equal in social status then .,From her poi

10、nt of view, happy marriage= love + wealth + equal social status. Love is the basis; enough wealth and equal social status are necessary.,.,12,Major Works,Sense and Sensibility 理智與情感 Mansfield Park 曼斯菲爾德莊園 Emma 愛(ài)瑪 Pride and Prejudice 傲慢與偏見(jiàn) Northhanger Abbey 諾桑覺(jué)寺 Persuasion 勸導(dǎo),.,14,Pride and Prejudice

11、 (1813年),.,15, Jane Austen began her second novel, Pride and Prejudice, before she was twenty-one. It was originally titled First Impression because the appearances of the characters created the plot of the novel.,However, because the novel is also concerned with the effects of the characters first

12、impressions, that is their prejudice, Jane found the title Pride and Prejudice more appropriate. In Georgian England, Mrs. Bennet raises her five daughters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia with the purpose of getting married with a rich husband that can support the family. They are not from

13、the upper class, and their house in Hartfordshire will be inherited by a distant cousin if Mr. Bennet dies.,.,16,When the wealthy bachelor Mr. Bingley and his best friend Mr. Darcy arrive in town to spend the summer in a mansion nearby their property, the shy and beautiful Jane falls in love for Mr.

14、 Bingley, and Lizzie finds Mr. Darcy a snobbish and proud man, and she swears to loathe him forever. This is the beginning of their wonderful love story.,.,17,Emma(1815年),.,18,Emma, by Jane Austen, is a comic novel about the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1

15、815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters.,.,19,Emma Woodhouse, aged 20 at the start of the novel, is a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman

16、 in Regency England. She lives on the fictional estate of Hartfield in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her elderly widowed father, a hypochondriac who is excessively concerned for the health and safety of his loved ones. Emmas friend and only critic is the gentlemanly George Knightley, her ne

17、ighbor from the adjacent estate of Donwell, and the brother of her elder sister Isabellas husband.,.,20,As the novel opens, Emma has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her best friend and former governess. Having introduced Miss Taylor to her future husband, Mr. Weston, Emma takes credit for

18、their marriage, and decides that she rather likes matchmaking.,.,21,Becoming Jane（2007）,.,22,The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unt

19、hinkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband to assure their daughters future social standing.,.,23, They are eyeing Mr. Wisley, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match., But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Thomas, sparks soon fl