简奥斯汀,英国文学史.pptVIP

;16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817;Austens immediate family was large:;Education:;After a few months at home, her mother placed Austen with Elizabeth Littlewood, a woman living nearby, who nursed and raised Austen for a year or eighteen months.;In 1783, according to family tradition, Jane and Cassandra were sent to Oxford to be educated by Mrs. Ann Cawley and they moved with her to Southampton later in the year. Both girls caught typhus and Jane nearly died.;Austen was subsequently educated at home, until leaving for boarding school with her sister Cassandra early in 1785. The school curriculum probably included some French, spelling, needlework, dancing and music and, perhaps, drama. By December 1786, Jane and Cassandra had returned home because the Austens could not afford to send both of their daughters to school.;Austen acquired the remainder of her education by reading books, guided by her father and her brothers James and Henry.George Austen apparently gave his daughters unfettered access to his large and varied library, was tolerant of Austens sometimes risqué experiments in writing, and provided both sisters with expensive paper and other materials for their writing and drawing.;Jane had almost no formal education, but she read extensively and critically.;In?1801?the?family?moved to the town of Bath. After Jane’s father died in 1805, Jane, Cassandra, and their mother moved several times, eventually settling in 1809 in the village of Chawton, very near Steventon. Austen lived and wrote there for the last eight years of her life.;About Her Works;Novels:;Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym A Lady. A work of romantic fiction, better known as a comedy of manners, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797,and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre co