高中英语Unit 5 Enjoying novels(Part 2)--Section 2 背景知识.docVIP

Unit 5 Enjoying novels Part One: Teaching Design Section 2: Background information for Unit 5 Enjoying novels 1. Jane Austen Jane Austen (December 16, 1775 – July 18, 1817) was a prominent English novelist whose work is considered part of the Western canon. Despite living the sheltered life of a spinster, her insights into womens lives and her mastery of form and irony made her arguably the most noted and influential novelist of her era. 2. Charlotte Bront? Charlotte Bront? (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855) was an English novelist, the eldest of the trio of Bront? sisters whose novels have be