June 15 (Landmarks), July 28, 1817, the death of British novelist Jane Austen.



Jane Austen (December 16, 1775 ~ 1817, July 18) British woman novelist. Steven Dayton, was born in the small rural town, the father is the local vicar. Austin did not on the regular school, but by good family education, the main textbook is the father of literary collections. Austin is a love of reading popular fiction, the most vulgar of occupation. Her adolescent assignments is a parody of the kind of popular fiction, thus forming a mocking tone in her work. 20-year-old she began writing and published six novels. "Sense and Sensibility", published in 1811 her debut, and subsequently published a series of "Pride and Prejudice" (1813) the Mansfield Garden "(1814) and" Emma "(1815). "Northanger Abbey" (also known as "Northanger Abbey") and "persuasion" (1818) is in the second year after her death, and the Department on the author's real name.
Austen never married, consist in the well-off. Living in the rural town of exposure to small landlords, priests, and other characters, and they are quiet, comfortable living environment, no major social contradictions in her works. Her meticulous observation of female-specific, truly depicting the world around her small world, especially among the ladies and gentlemen of marriage and love affairs. Her style of work is a lighthearted, satirical, comedic conflict, welcomed by the readers. (Today in History TodayOnHistory.com)
from the late 18th to the early 19th century, the vulgar and boring "sentimental novel" and "Gothic novel" flooded the British literary scene, while Austin novel new channels, and an anti- routinely show the daily life of the rural middle class in the United Kingdom had not yet been the impact of the capitalist industrial revolution and rural scenery. Her works, often through comedy scenes mocking people stupid, selfish, snobbish and blind self-confidence and so contemptible, laughable weakness. Austin's novel appeared in the early 19th century, sweeping away the false romanticism trend prevailed, inherit and develop the excellent tradition of realism in the 18th century in the UK to do to prepare for the climax of the novel of the 19th century realism. Reflect the breadth and depth of his works, but her work as "two inches of ivory carving from a small window to peep into the whole social patterns and ways of the world, change the ethos of vulgar novels at that time played a good role nexus significance in the history of the development of the English novel, the writer known as the status of "equal footing" with Shakespeare.
Review: Austin works are classics, just a pity untimely death unmarried.