The life
She published anonymously in her lifetime, writing in the family sitting room and hiding the manuscript when visitors came. Six novels, a small canvas, and an unerring ear.
She made the marriage plot carry moral and social argument, and free indirect style do the work of a narrator.
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Pride and Prejudice — Opening
Jane Austen · 1813
One ironic sentence that dismantles an entire marriage market.
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Emma
Jane Austen · 1815
A clever woman with nothing to do decides to arrange other people's lives.
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen · 1811
Two sisters: one feels everything, one shows nothing, both must survive on very little.
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Persuasion
Jane Austen · 1817
The second chance, eight years late.
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