简·奥斯丁无果而终恋情.docVIP

简·奥斯丁无果而终恋情 　　【导读】 简·奥斯丁（Jane Austen, 1775~1817），19世纪英国小说家，其《傲慢与偏见》（Pride and Prejudice）是中国读者最为熟知的一部小说。简·奥斯丁年轻的时候身材高挑、相貌姣好，并不缺乏追求者，简也经历过几次简短的恋情，但都无果而终。在普通人看来，未婚终究是憾事一桩，但简并不后悔，她觉得单身生活不仅让她避免了和自己不喜欢的人在一起的命运，也让她有了追求文学创作的自由。放弃了结婚的打算后，简一直和家人生活在一起，过着简单的生活，致力于小说创作。1817年7月17日，简·奥斯丁因患阿迪森病（Addison’s Disease）在姐姐卡桑德拉的怀中安详死去。 　　Jane Austen in Love 　　In the autumn of 1792, not long before her 17th birthday, Jane Austen came out into society. She was a tall, slender and pretty young girl who had fine brown hair, a pair of bright eyes and a small but well?shaped nose. Mrs. Mitford, once a neighbor of the Austen family described Jane as “the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembered.” At the age of 20, she already had several admirers and it seemed quite unnecessary for her mother Mrs. Austen to worry that her younger daughter’s talents were such as would make it difficult to find a husband to suit her. 　　Of the various young men to whom Jane referred at this time, the only friendship which might have developed into romance was in fact that with Tom Lefroy. Tom was a good?looking and serious young man, slightly younger than Jane Austen. In the autumn of 1795， he had just completed his degree at Trinity College, Dublin① and came to visit his English uncle and aunt for a Christmas holiday. He and Jane danced at four balls in two months and were so greatly attracted to each other that the Lefroy family thought the attraction might lead to a formal engagement between them. Madame Lefroy blamed Tom for paying court to Jane when he knew he didn’t have enough money to support a wife and therefore sent him away to London to continue his legal studies. Tom and Jane never met again. In 1799, Tom married a friend’s sister. Although his marriage was very happy, he never forgot Jane Austen. 　　In 1802 Jane Austin was to experience her second romance when she and her elder sister Cassandra were visiting Manydown in Hampshire. On the evening of December 2, t