Jane Austen,

Jane Austen was an English author who wrote during the romantic period. Today, she is
viewed as one of the most respected authors in the romance genre whose novels are
considered pure classics

Jane Austen was was born in 1775 in the village of Steventon in Hampshire England
and died in 1817, when she was just 41. But in her short life, she exerted more of a
lasting influence on British literature and culture than many of her peers who lived
twice as long.
She was one of eight children of a clergyman and grew up in a close-knit family.
The family was close and the children grew up in an environment that stressed
learning and creative thinking. Her lively and affectionate family circle provided a
stimulating context for her writing. She wrote six novels.  include Sense and Sensibility,
Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Mansfield Park. Her six
major novels take a critical and often humorous look at life in the late 1700s. These novels
shared common plots involving the marriages of young women and the realities of their lives.
In her novels she expresses the feminist feelings of her time.

Austen’s heroines are unique women who try to stand up for themselves in a society which is
an ideal of feminism She has portrayed women as independent beings who share
ideals in a male dominated society.

Her novels bridged the gap between romance and realism. Auste.n’s novels belong
to the romantic genre, however, her heroines (Elizabeth Bennet, Emma) were shown
to resist and reject patriarchy, ingrained in society in far more severe ways than our
times. 

Her novels didn't get recognized in her own life but rather her comic novels of love
gained popularity after her death in 1869, and her reputation skyrocketed in the 20th
century.

The tales of life, and love, are filled with irony, and a sense of realism about the era
and the characters she wrote about.

She published four novels during her lifetime: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and
Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815).
She vividly depicted English middle-class life during the early 19th century. Her
novels defined the era’s novel of manners, but they also became timeless classics
that remained popular successes two centuries after her death.
In her novels, a study of frustration and of woman’s fate in a society that has no use
for her talents. Austen’s novels are deeply concerned with love and marriage.
The reviewers praised the novels for their morality and entertainment, admired the
character drawing, and welcomed the domestic realism as a refreshing change from
the romantic melodrama then in vogue.
it is with Jane Austen that the novel takes on its distinctively modern character in the
realistic treatment of unremarkable people in the unremarkable situations of
everyday life. are notable for their wit, social observation and insights into the lives
of early 19th century women.

Her repeated fable of a young woman’s voyage to self-discovery on the passage

through love to marriage focuses upon easily recognizable aspects of life. It is this
concentration upon character and personality and upon the tensions between her
heroines and their society that relates her novels more closely to the modern world
than to the traditions of the 18th century. 

Regency Period
The period is named for George, Prince Regent, the temporary king of Great Britain
while his father, George III, was ill. The Regency Period officially lasted nine years,
from 1811 to 1820, and saw the rise of many well-known authors and styles of art,
including Jane Austen and Regency Classicism.

Gossip used to be the channel of communication

Carriage showcase class and status and wealth
Pounds: their social class, position in society, dependency of women on men,
dependency of men to marry a
Marriage can open avenues for social worth
Lingua franca amalgamation of different languages (like in Lahore: Urdu, Punjab,
English)
Lingua Franca In 18th, 19th Century: Latin, English, French etc
In Austen’s novels, it matters a lot that who is saying this particular thing.