Jame austen is best known as a consummate novelist of mummers .

the author of six novels

Austen depicted a small slice of English life during the regency period on this time marked
by the Napoleonic wars the early growth of the English empire and an economical and
industrial revolution that was countered by a cultural emphasis on all things proper, elegant ,
genteel and truly “English”.

This lively and excisable introduction to J.Austen focuses on the extraordinary diversity of
her writing . some how the case and familiarity of Jane Austen’s tone and style , the modesty
and unpretentiousness of her performance, disarms leave us more inclined to enthuse about
her superb comic effects her marvellous characterisation , her shafts of waif, than to approach
her with the methodical analysis of formal criticism .

Jane austen’s writing career extended over a period of thirty years from the earliest of the
childhood pieces , dating from 1787, when she was a girl of eleven or twelve until 1817 when
she was working on sandstone . the novel left unfinished at the time of her death. It is helpful
to keep this span in mind since the publication dates of the six major novels between 1811
and 1818 can be slightly misleading.

While one of the world’s most popular novels , Jane Austin’s pride and prejudice has
delighted readers since its publications with the story of the witty Elizabeth Benet and her
relationship with the aristocrat fitzwillicum dairy . similar to Austen’s other works, pride and
prejudice is a humorous portrayal of the social atmosphere of late eighteenth and early
nineteenth century England and its principally concerned with courtship rituals of the English
gentry

The novel is much more than a comedic love story , however through Austen’s subtle and
ironic style , it addresses economic , political , feminist , sociological and philosophical
themes , inspiring a great deal of diverse critical commentary on the meaning of the work.

When she entered a earth the classical age had passed away formality in art manners and
ideas had given place to something which was emotional , imaginative and spontaneous . in
poetry the stiffeners of the heroic complot had been replaced by the irregular verse forms .
pope Addison had been dethroned as popular idols in favours of Cowper and Scott
Shakespeare had come back into his own after years of eclipse as a barbarian. In her period
was that of the first generation of the romantic poets of the French revolutions and war of
American independence of the malt has words worth , Scott , he gal Coleridge and napoleon .