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#WickedWomenWed: A Famous Female Author

3/23/2016

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For this #WickedWomenWed, I'm selecting one of my own favorite authors, Jane Austen! From Pride and Prejudice to Sense and Sensibility, her writing was smart, funny, and romantic. 

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her literary realism, biting irony and social commentary as well as her acclaimed plots have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.

Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. From 1811 until 1816, with the publication of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began another one, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.

Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Her works, though usually popular, were first published anonymously and brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime. The publication in 1869 of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public, and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. The second half of the 20th century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a Janeite fan culture.
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4/17/2020 01:52:05 am

I want to be a famous author in the future, too. I think that people need to go and follow their dreams, and that is exactly what I want to do. It is going to be a long road ahead of me, but I still want to do it. I truly admire you for your hard work, and I want you to know that you have inspired me. I want you to go and guide me a little bit through this process.

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