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1、Outline 1.Her Life 2. Love Experience 3.Major Works4.Famous Sentences第1页/共25页 Her Life第2页/共25页Jane Austen (1775-1817) An English writer, who first gave the novel its moderncharacter, through the treatment of everyday life. Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, where her father was a rector.

2、She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight. The first 25 years of her life，Austen spent in Hampshire. She was tutored at home. Her parents were avid readers and she received a broader education than many women of her time. On her fathers retirement, the family moved to Bath.

3、第3页/共25页 Austen focused on middle-class provincial life with humor and understanding. She depicted the life of minor landed gentry, country clergymen and their families, in which marriage mainly determined womens social status. 第4页/共25页Most important for her were those little matters, as Emma says,

4、on which the daily happiness of private life depends. Although Austen restricted to family matters, and she passed the historical events of the Napoleonic wars, her wit and observant narrative touch has been inexhaustible delight to readers. 第5页/共25页 Of her six great novels, four were published anon

5、ymously during her lifetime. At her death on July 18, 1817 in Winchester, Austen was writing the unfinished Sanditon. Austen was buried in Winchester Cathedral. 第6页/共25页Austens HomeShe was buried in Winchester Cathedral第7页/共25页In 1796, Jane met Thomas Langlois Lefroy. Jane Austen and the Irish lawye

6、r who is smart fell in love with each other at the first sight, however, Jane Austen was expected to marry a guywith a good fortune, while Thomas was a young man born in a poor family whose parents wanted their son to marry a rich woman and demanded him to come back to Ireland. 第8页/共25页Ever since th

7、en, they never met each other. Later, Thomas married a rich woman in a noble family at their familys wish and became the judge of the Supreme court of Ireland. Suffered from her first love, Austen chose to be single for all life and put all her energy in writing.Thomass first daughter was named Jane

8、 Christmas Lefroy. Scholars debate the derivation of this name. And most of them believe the name referred to Jane Austen. That is what is implied in the 2007 film Becoming Jane.第9页/共25页 From her point of view, happy marriage= love + wealth + equal social status. Love is the basis; enough wealth and

9、 equal social status are necessary. 第10页/共25页Major WorksSense and Sensibility 理智与情感Mansfield Park 曼斯菲尔德庄园Emma 爱玛Pride and Prejudice 傲慢与偏见Northhanger Abbey 诺桑觉寺Persuasion 劝导第11页/共25页第12页/共25页 Pride and PrejudicePride and Prejudice (1813(1813年年) )第13页/共25页 Jane Austen began her second novel, Pride and

10、 Prejudice, before she was twenty-one. It was originally titled First Impression because the appearances of the characters created the plot of the novel. However, because the novel is also concerned with the effects of the characters first impressions, that is their prejudice, Jane found the title P

11、ride and Prejudice more appropriate. In Georgian England, Mrs. Bennet raises her five daughters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia with the purpose of getting married with a rich husband that can support the family. They are not from the upper class, and their house in Hartfordshire will be in

12、herited by a distant cousin if Mr. Bennet dies. 第14页/共25页 When the wealthy bachelor Mr. Bingley and his best friend Mr. Darcy arrive in town to spend the summer in a mansion nearby their property, the shy and beautiful Jane falls in love for Mr. Bingley, and Lizzie finds Mr. Darcy a snobbish and pro

13、ud man, and she swears to loathe him forever. This is the beginning of their wonderful love story. 第15页/共25页EmmaEmma(1815(1815年年) )第16页/共25页 Emma, by Jane Austen, is a comic novel about the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen

14、 explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters.第17页/共25页 Emma Woodhouse, aged 20 at the start of the novel, is a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman in Regency England. She lives

15、on the fictional estate of Hartfield in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her elderly widowed father, a hypochondriac who is excessively concerned for the health and safety of his loved ones. Emmas friend and only critic is the gentlemanly George Knightley, her neighbor from the adjacent estate

16、 of Donwell, and the brother of her elder sister Isabellas husband. 第18页/共25页As the novel opens, Emma has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her best friend and former governess. Having introduced Miss Taylor to her future husband, Mr. Weston, Emma takes credit for their marriage, and decides

17、 that she rather likes matchmaking.第19页/共25页Becoming Becoming JaneJane（20072007） 第20页/共25页 The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthi

18、nkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband to assure their daughters future social standing. 第21页/共25页 They are eyeing Mr. Wisley, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match. But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Thomas, sparks soon fly along with the sharp repartee. His intellect and arr