金色筆記 20 :Jane Austen ( 1775-1817) : A critic and a Feminist from 200 years ago

1 A Royal Crescent: in Bath
2The "cottage" : in Chawton where Jane Austen lived during the last eight years of her life, now Jane Austen's House Museum

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist, whose realism, biting social commentary and use of free indirect speech have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature.

I was inpired by "Educating Alice" , of which the aruthor A. Steinbeck reaches out her curiosity in many fields, especially in travaling to England, the path of locating Jane Auten. Austen, a Sagittarius, does not seem so ancient to me as I suddenly dived into her year of birth, 1775, finding that the whole social climbing, male chauvinism, and feminist theory, have never changed much since her time.

Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Mansfield Park (1814)
Emma (1815)
Northanger Abbey (1817) (posthumous)
Persuasion (1817) (posthumous)