Jane austen Jane Austen was a prominent English novelist whose fiction satirical, witty, elegantly structured mark the transition in English literature from the eighteenth-century neoclassicism to romanticism of the nineteenth century. Model is a writer with a seemingly wealthy life but knew that they accurately reflect the drama in his novels. 
born in a rectory in the town of Steventon in Hampshire County December 16, 1775. She was the daughter of Rev. George Austen and his wife Cassandra. Most of his life was spent in that area and never left his family, which was the seventh of eight children. He had six brothers and one sister, Cassandra, which was very close. His brothers Frank and Charles were sailors and ended up being admirals. In 1783 he received part of their education by a relative of the family, first in Oxford and then Southampton. Between 1785 and 1786 he attended school for girls at the Abbey of Reading in Berkshire County. Received a better educated than women receiving the time.
In general, his life was calm and happy, despite a broken heart, only with nothing to disturb the placidity of a petty and provincial existence, only very occasionally performed odd week trip to London.
began writing novels as a child to your family. Some of his earliest works written since 1790, were published in the book Love and friendship, and other works (1922). The six novels he wrote should be classified into two distinct periods. Those of the first (1796-1798) took over 15 years to find a publisher. During this time he wrote Trial and feeling (Sense and Sensibility, 1811), story of two sisters and their love affairs, Pride and Prejudice (1813), considered the best of his novels, whose drafting began in 1796, though not published until 1813. It tells the story of the five Bennet sisters and tribulations of their own affairs. Northanger Abbey (1818) is a satire on the Gothic novels so popular in the late eighteenth century.
The second stage creator of Jane Austen began in 1811 after the publication of judgments and feelings. After twelve years disappointing and unproductive, he wrote quickly and on their last three novels: Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816) and Persuasion (1818). Tell all the romantic entanglements of her three heroines, portrayed in depth.
His characters are middle class and provincial, whose main concern is getting a good pass more ambitious economic and marriage. Its theme was the extent characteristic of maturity through the loss of illusions. The personality defects of those who appear in his novels is correct lesson from the trials. Even the most minor character is vividly internalized in his lucid style characteristic. By their sensitivity to universal standards of human behavior, many critics see Austen as one of the greatest writers of the English novel.
never married but was engaged to a young, Harris Bigg-Wither. Jane finally decided not to marry. Already established as a novelist, continued to live relatively withdrawn and began to have ill health. It is believed he suffered from Addison's disease (underactive adrenal glands) from which the cause is unknown.
traveled to Winchester to seek medical care but his condition began to progress rapidly and died two months after his arrival in the city, July 18, 1817. He was 41. She is buried in Winchester Cathedral.
