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Jane Austen (/ ˈ ɒ s t ɪ n, ˈ ɔː s t ɪ n / OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for ...
George Knightley is a principal character depicted by Jane Austen in her novel Emma, published in 1815. He is a landowner and gentleman farmer, though "having little spare money". [1] A lifetime friend of Emma's, though nearly seventeen years older than she, he is one of the only characters willing to correct her when he believes her to be ...
Reader, I Married Him: A Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot is a 1974 literary criticism by Patricia Beer that examines Victorian literature authors, their characters, and their works. It was reviewed in several publications.
Mr Henry Woodhouse is a central character in Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma and the father of the protagonist, Emma Woodhouse.He is a wealthy member of the English landed gentry who owns a large country estate.
Frances "Fanny" Price (named after her mother) is the heroine in Jane Austen's 1814 novel, Mansfield Park.The novel begins when Fanny's overburdened, impoverished family—where she is both the second-born and the eldest daughter out of 10 children—sends her at the age of ten to live in the household of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, and his family at Mansfield Park.
Austen extends her critique by highlighting social hypocrisy through irony; she often creates an ironic tone through free indirect speech in which the thoughts and words of the characters mix with the voice of the narrator. The degree to which critics believe Austen's characters have psychological depth informs their views regarding her realism.
Emma Woodhouse is the 21-year-old titular protagonist of Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma.She is described in the novel's opening sentence as "handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition... and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."
Pride & Prejudice-fiction. The following is a list of literary depictions of and related to the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.As 100 protagonist-focused sequels were noted in 2013 [1] and many more titles have been published since then, it is limited to entries at least mentioned by a notable source.