Jane austen brief biography of prophet
Jane austen brief biography of prophet pdf.
Jane Austen Biography
A Brief Biography of Jane Austen
David Cody, Associate Professor of English, Hartwick College
Jane Austen was born December 16, 1775, to Rev.
George Austen and the former Cassandra Leigh in Steventon, Hampshire, the seventh of eight children.
Jane austen brief biography of prophet
Like the central characters in most of her novels, the Austens were a large family of respectable lineage but no fortune; her father supplemented his “living” — his clergyman’s income — by farming. This lively and cheerful family frequently passed their evenings in novel-reading, charades and amateur theatrics.
Among her siblings, her sister Cassandra, three years older, was her lifelong friend and confidant.
Jane Austen, engraving by Lizars based on watercolor by James Andrews after unfinished work by Cassandra Austen, published 1870
Her large family supplied material for the kind of novels popular when she wrote, but she chose not to draw upon any of it: her mother, for example, was related to a