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附 件 I. Jane Austen Jane Austen was born in a country clergyman’s family on 16 December, 1775, in the parish of Steventon. She was brought up in an intelligent but restricted environment. Her father was a priest and a scholar with a good library. She was educated at home with her sister. Through a wide reading of books available in her father’s library, Jane acquired a thorough knowledge of eighteen-century English literature, including the moral philosophy of Dr Johnson, the poetry of W. Cowper, as well as the novels by Richardson and Fielding. She lived in a quiet, retired and, in public terms, uneventful life, though she did move to several places like Bath, Southampton and Chawton. And her closest companion was her elder sister Cassandra, who, like her never married. Austen began as a child to write novels for her family entertainment. Her works were later published anonymously due to the prejudice against women writers then. In her lifelong career, Jane Austen wrote altogether six complete novels. She died in Winchester. In her lifelong career, Jane Austen wrote altogether six complete novels: 揝ense and Sensibility?(1 s811) 理智与情感 “Pride and Prejudice” (1813) 傲慢与偏见 “Northanger Abbey” (1818) 诺桑觉寺 “Mansfield Park” (1814) 曼斯菲尔德花园 “Emma” (1815) 爱玛 “Persuasion” (1818) 劝告 Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th century, though she lived mainly in the 19th century. She holds the ideals of the landlord class in politics, religion and moral principles; and her works show clearly her firm belief in the predominance of reason over passion, the sense of responsibility, good manners and clear-sighted judgment over the Romantic tendencies of emotion and individuality. As a realistic writer, she considers it her duty to express in her works a discriminated and serious criticism of life, and to expose the follies and illusions of mankind. She shows contemptuous feelings towards snobbery, stupidity, worldliness and vulgarity through subtle satire and irony. An