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Jane Austen and ;Jane Austen;The cottage in Chawton where Jane Austen lived during the last eight years of her life, now Jane Austens House Museum;Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral.;Contents;Austens parents George Austen,a rector of the Anglican parishes at Steventon, Hampshire ; Cassandra ,a member of the prominent Leigh family. were members of substantial gentry families（绅士阶层家庭）;Early Life and Education; By December 1786, returned home because the Austens could not afford to send both of their daughters to school;According to Park Honan, a biographer of Austen, life in the Austen home was lived in an open, amused, easy intellectual atmosphere;Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics. ; Sense and Sensibility (1811) Pride and Prejudice (1813) Mansfield Park (1814) Emma (1815) Northanger Abbey(1818) Persuasion (1818) ;Quiet irony and simple delicate analysis of character;Her style is easy and effortless,a perfect example of what De Quincey meant when he said that we should have to turn to the prose of the cultivated gentlewoman for English uncorrupted by the slang and cant of the world.;Henry James, who referred to Austen several times with approval and on one occasion ranked her with Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Henry Fielding as among the fine painters of life.;Author and critic Leslie Stephen described the popular mania that started to develop for Austen in the 1880s as Austenolatry.;Several important works paved the way for Austens novels to become a focus of academic study. The first important milestone was a 1911 essay by Oxford Shakespearean scholar A. C. Bradley, which is generally regarded as the starting-poin