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British Culture: ALPHABET (J)
il y a 5 ansHi all!
I'm writing about British culture.
I thought a cool way to introduce some British culture into the Verbling community would be to work through the alphabet and talk about a topic for each letter.
So, for J we are focusing on.....
Jane Austen.
Jane Austen is a famous English writer known for classics such as Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Persuasion.
Born in September, 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, Austen was a late arrival whose birth prompted her father to write in a letter that her mother "certainly expected to have been brought to bed a month ago". Jane’s father, George, worked within the Church and her mother, Cassandra, grew up among the gentry.
Jane began writing at an early age, during her teens she wrote poems and stories to amuse and entertain her family. She later compiled the best of this work into three volumes now referred to as The Juvenilia.
Jane was largely educated at home. She had several siblings and one of them, Edward, was adopted by wealthy cousins and became a part of the gentry. This privileged world, of the “high-born, noble, well-born and well-bred” Ladies and Gentlemen of England, became the centre of the world that Jane would write about in her novels.
Austen’s best known novel is Pride and Prejudice. It’s set in rural England in the early 19th century, and it follows the Bennet family, which includes five very different sisters. Mrs. Bennet is anxious to see all her daughters married, especially as the modest family estate is to be inherited by William Collins when Mr. Bennet dies.
The love story between Mr Darcy, a proud aristocratic gentleman and Elizabeth Bennett, a witty, independent woman has captivated readers for centuries. It has been made into a series and a film and is a fascinating insight into British society in the early 19th Century.
