Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813, is a novel written in English by Jane Austen, and it stands among her best-known books.
Austen was born on 16 December 1775 in Steventon. She worked as a writer and novelist, composing her fiction in English. Her work is associated with the genres of romance and Gothic literature, and Pride and Prejudice reflects her engagement with those literary modes. Over the course of her life, Austen held citizenship in both the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the latter reflecting the constitutional changes that occurred during her lifetime.
Her other notable works include Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and Emma. Emma, published in 1816, also ranks among her best-known books, and like her other novels it was written in English. Northanger Abbey connects her output to Gothic literature as a genre, while the presence of romance across her novels places her work within that literary tradition as well. These six completed novels represent the body of fiction she produced during her career as a novelist.
Austen died on 18 July 1817 in Winchester. Emma, published the year before her death, stands as one of the final works she saw into print, offering a concrete endpoint to her published career as a novelist writing in English.
Quotes by Jane Austen
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There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathized with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanor, and a general want of understanding.
All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run, will certainly have the laugh on her side.
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defense of some little peculiar vexation.
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed
She was disturbed by no fear for her felicity, not humbled by any remembrance of her misconduct.