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Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Jane Austen‘s life(1775-1817) Jane Austen was born on 16th December 1775, at Steventon in Hampshire, where her father was a rector. She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight. The household was lively and bookish. The family also enjoyed writing and performing plays for evening entertainment. She never married. She died at 41. Jane Auste never married,this man was her boyfriend ,she didnt become his wife at last. but her Social life was active and she had suitors and romantic dreams. Introduction to Jane Austen Jane Austen lived in the Romantic Age but her novels were anti-romantic. The first famous English female writer. Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about human beings in their personal relationships. Because of this, her novels have a universal significance. 她以十分逼真的手法刻画了一些普普通通的、而非出类拔萃的人，他们通过极其普通的谈话和行为举止把自己完全而一致的呈现出来。简奥斯丁的沉静和自制，以及绝妙地用平静的言辞去表达她平静的内容，这些特点，较之于那些热情洋溢、言辞滔滔不绝的伟大作家，同样显示出她的创作天才。 ---剑桥英国文学史 Austen’s novels were not so popular in her days. But they turned out to be more and more popular and especially in the 20th century. Now Austen’s novels were regarded as classical novels in English literature. Jane Austen Quotes “A ladys imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” “A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” “An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.”  Pride and Prejudice First published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has consistently been Jane Austens most popular novel. It portrays life in the genteel rural society of the day, and tells of the initial misunderstandings and later mutual enlightenment between Elizabeth Bennet and the haughty Darcy. The title Pride and Prejudice refers to the ways in w