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Jane Austen By Ashley Stiwinter Pride and Prejudic e Sense and Sensibil ity Northang er Abbey

Jane Austen By Ashley Stiwinter Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Northanger Abbey

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Jane Austen

By Ashley Stiwinter

Pride and Prejudice

Sense and Sensibility

Northanger Abbey

Pride and Prejudice- Austen

• Victorian era

• Main characters--Darcy and Elizabeth

• Involves romance, pride, misinformation, jealousy, marriage.

Pride and PrejudiceCharacter List

Elizabeth Bennet a smart young woman. She enjoys dancing and walks through the country. This is the main character. Eventually falls in love with Darcy.

Fitzwilliam Darcy a wealthy man full of pride. At first he is rude and unpleasant but as the novel goes on, and his love for Elizabeth grows he shows a kind generous loving man.

Jane Bennet Elizabeth’s kind sister who is also her best friend. She is in love with Charles Bingley.

Charles Bingley a wealthy new comer that falls in love with Jane Bennet but is easily influenced by Darcy.

Caroline Bingley Bingley's haughty sister. She attempts to attract Darcy and is jealous when Darcy is instead in love with Elizabeth.

George Wickham A handsome fortune hunter that Elizabeth is orginally attracted. Eventually runs off with and is forced to marry Lydia.

Lydia Bennet Elizabeth’s immature and irresponsible youngest sister. runs away with Wickham.

Lady Catherine De Bourgh Darcy's aunt, who dominates Mr. Collins and entertains hopes that her daughter will marry Darcy.

Miss De Bourgh Lady Catherine's sick daughter.

Georgiana Darcy Darcy's shy but warmhearted sister.

Charlotte Lucas Elizabeth's friend, who marrys Mr. Collins for money and security.

Mr. Collins Mr. Bennet's cousin, who will inherit Mr. Bennet's estate after his death. He marrys Charlotte Lucas.

Charles Bingley, a rich single man, moves to the Netherfield estate. Mrs. Bennet, hopes to marry one of her 5 daughters to him. When the Bennet’s meet him at a local ball, where he is attracted to Jane Bennet. They find Bingley's friend Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rude unpleasant man. Elizabeth Bennet overhears his refusal to dance with her. Any serious relationship between Bingley and Jane, however, is opposed by Bingley's sisters who do not approve and by Darcy. Darcy finds himself attracted to Elizabeth despite his objections to her family. He is drawn to her spirit and expressive eyes. Caroline Bingley's jealous criticisms of Elizabeth does not prevent Darcy’s Feelings. As Darcy grows more interested in Elizabeth, Elizabeth continues to despise him and is instead attracted to George Wickham a militia officer. Wickham tells Elizabeth that he and Darcy grew up together. Stating that he was favored by Darcy's father, Wickham claims that Darcy disobeyed his father's bequest of a clergyman's revenue to Wickham out of selfish resentment. Wickham's tale makes Darcy appear not only proud but cruel, and Elizabeth accepts Wickham's account without question, disliking Darcy even more because of it.The Bennet family is visited by Mr. Bennet's cousin, William Collins, a clergyman who will inherit Mr. Bennet's estate when he dies. He praises for his patroness, Lady Catherine De Bourgh, Mr. Collins informs Mrs. Bennet that Lady Catherine has instructed him to marry and that he plans to choose a wife from the Bennet daughters. He settles on Elizabeth, but is stunned and offended when she refuses him. He quickly turns his attention to Elizabeth's friend, Charlotte Lucas, who wants to marry for security rather than love, and the two are soon engaged and married.

Summary

MORE--Jane is sad to find out that Bingley and his family have left for London. Caroline Bingley writes to Jane that they do not intend to return, and she predicts a match between Bingley and Darcy's sister, Georgiana, who is also in London. Although Jane quietly resigns herself to a life without Bingley, Elizabeth is angry for her sister and suspects that Bingley's sisters and Darcy are trying to keep him from Jane.

Elizabeth visits Charlotte at her new home and meets Lady Catherine De Bourgh, an overbearing woman who thrives on meddling in other people's lives. Soon after Elizabeth's arrival, Darcy visits his aunt. Darcy puzzles Elizabeth with his behavior; he seems to seek out her company, but he never says much. One day, he surprises Elizabeth by proposing to her. Still repelled by his pride and believing Darcy is responsible for Bingley's separation from Jane and for Wickham's misfortune, Elizabeth refuses him. Darcy gives her a letter explaining his why he influenced Bingley to leave and of Wickham's situation. The facts reveal that Darcy didn’t do anything wrong making Elizabeth shocked at her discovery of how her own pride prejudiced her against Darcy. After returning home Elizabeth goes on a trip with her aunt and uncle Gardiner, where they visit Darcy's estate. There they meet Darcy unexpectedly and are all surprised at how graciously he treats them. He calls on Elizabeth at her inn, introduces her to his sister, and invites her to his estate for dinner. Darcy is still in love with Elizabeth, and Elizabeth begins to have similar feelings for him.

Elizabeth receives 2 letters from Jane telling her that Lydia has eloped with Wickham, causing Elizabeth and the Gardiners to leave for home immediately. Elizabeth fears that Lydia and the Bennet family are permanently disgraced and that her newly-discovered love for Darcy is hopeless. When Lydia is found, however, she and Wickham marry. Elizabeth discovers that Darcy was instrumental in orchestrating the marriage, thereby saving the reputation and marriageability of the other Bennet daughters.

Bingley returns to Netherfield and soon asks Jane to marry him. Jane, of course, accepts. Elizabeth's happiness for her sister is interrupted by a visit from Lady Catherine De Bourgh, who has heard a rumor that Darcy and Elizabeth are engaged, which they are not. She lectures Elizabeth on the imprudence of such a match, and then demands that Elizabeth promise not to accept any proposal from Darcy. Elizabeth refuses, causing Lady Catherine to tell Darcy about Elizabeth's boldness. She scolds him about the idea of an engagement between them. Lady Catherine tells of Elizabeth's response to her demands. This gives Darcy hope that Elizabeth has had a change of heart. He proposes again and Elizabeth happily accepts.

Other Works and Motion Pictures• Sense and Sensibility

Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John, and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances. The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home, a cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience both romance and heartbreak. The contrast between the sisters' characters is eventually resolved as they each find love and lasting happiness. Through the events in the novel, Elinor and Marianne encounter the sense and sensibility of life and love.

• Northanger Abbey

Follows Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath. Catherine is in Bath for the first time. There she meets her friends such as Isabella Thorpe, and goes to balls. Catherine finds herself pursued by Isabella's brother, the rather rough-mannered, slovenly John Thorpe, and by her real love interest, Henry Tilney. She also becomes friends with Eleanor Tilney, Henry's younger sister. Henry captivates her with his view on novels and his knowledge of history and the world. General Tilney (Henry and Eleanor's father) invites Catherine to visit their estate, Northanger Abbey, which, from her reading of Ann Radcliffe’s gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, she expects to be dark, ancient and full of Gothic horrors and fantastical mystery.

• Pride and Predjudice, Sense and sensibility, Northanger Abbey have all had movies made telling the story

About The Author• Jane Austen was born December

16, 1775. She died July 18th, 1817, the age of 41.

• An English novelist who wrote romance and drama.

• Educated from home.• As a little girl Jane wrote and

preformed plays with her family.

• The books she read as a child shaped her short sketches as a child

• In her early twenties she wrote the novels that were later to be published as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey.

• She enjoyed dancing, the country, and long country walks.

• She never married.• Jane Austen had

contracted Addison's Disease, a tubercular disease of the kidneys.

• She died July 18th 1817, the age of 41

• She was buried in Winchester Cathedral

The Austen Family• Her father, George Austen was a

clergyman at Steventon, Hampshire in England.

• Her mother, Cassandra Leigh Austen was from a higher social rank, but once she married the George in 1764 she lived happily as middle class. She had eight children (6 sons and 2 daughters).

• The order the children were born as follows: James, Edward, Henry, Cassandra, Francis, George, Jane, and Charles

• Jane had a close relationship with her sister Cassandra, whom also never married.

• Jane formed her closest with Henry of all her brothers. He was also her literary agent.

Henry Austen

Quotes• “Business, you know, may bring you

money. But friendship hardly ever does”• “Every man is surrounded by a

neighborhood of voluntary spies”• “Happiness in marriage is entirely a

matter of chance”• “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it

jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

• “A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.”

• ”A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

• “It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”

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