珍·奥斯汀(Jane Austen,1775年12月16日-1817年7月18日)是英国著名小说家。她的作品主要关注乡绅家庭的女性的婚姻和生活,以细致入微的观察和活泼风趣的文字著称。生平 生於英国汉普郡,有6个兄弟和一个姐姐,家境尚可。她的父亲乔治·奥斯汀(George Austen,1731年—1805年)是一名牧师,母亲名卡桑德拉(1739年—1827年)。奥斯汀兄弟中詹姆斯和亨利後来也从事神职,弗朗西斯和查尔斯则曾供职英国海军。珍与她的姐姐卡桑德拉关系密切,她们之间的信件为後世奥斯汀研究提供了很多素材。卡桑德拉为珍·奥斯汀所作的画像目前保存在伦敦的国家肖像馆内。珍·奥斯汀一生未嫁。1796年,她与後来成为爱尔兰最高法官的汤姆·勒佛伊(Tom Lefroy)有过短暂的罗曼史,据传他就是《傲慢与偏见》中达西先生的原型。1802年,一名比奥斯汀小六岁的富有男子哈里斯·彼格威瑟(Harris Bigg-Wither)向她求婚。奥斯汀最初接受了,次日又改变主意拒绝了他。1801年,奥斯汀的父亲退休後,全家迁居到疗养胜地巴斯。就像笔下的女主人公安妮·艾略特一样,奥斯汀并不喜欢巴斯,这也许与她家庭经济状况日趋拮据有关。1805年父亲去世後,奥斯汀跟随母亲和姐姐到南安普敦与兄长弗兰克住了几年。1809年又移居查顿(Chawton)投奔兄长爱德华。那里的小屋现在是奥斯汀纪念馆,成为了著名的旅游景点。奥斯汀後期的作品就是在那里写作的。1816年,奥斯汀的健康状况恶化,她於1817年搬到温彻斯特疗养,并於同年7月病逝。葬在温彻斯特大教堂。作品及评价 1811年,在兄长亨利的资助下,奥斯汀的出版了第一本小说——《理性与感性》。而她最著名的作品则是《傲慢与偏见》。奥斯汀所处的年代正是浪漫主义方兴未艾之际,但是奥斯汀的作品不属於浪漫主义,而更接近新古典主义的风格。比起同时代的华兹华斯和拜伦,奥斯汀的精神也许接近休谟和洛克。刚获出版时,奥斯汀的作品并未获得很高声誉,然而沃尔特·司各特爵士对她评价很高:「这位年轻的女士很擅长描写日常生活中的情感和人物,是我所见之中最高妙的。」奥斯汀对司各特也很欣赏。在奥斯汀的最後一部小说《劝导》中,小说人物对司各特的作品赞赏有加。而早在《理性与感性》中,女主人公玛丽安已经将司各特视为最爱的作家之一了。推崇奥斯汀的人还包括麦考莱(Macaulay),柯尔律治(Samuel Taylor Coleridge),Robert Southey,Sydney Smith,Edward Fitzgerald,纳博科夫等。据说当时还是摄政王的乔治四世所有的住所都备有一套奥斯汀小说供他随时阅读,迫於他的要求,奥斯汀把自己最爱的小说《爱玛》献给了摄政王。吉布林(Rudyard Kipling)曾经写过一个短篇《简迷》(The Janeites)讲述奥斯汀爱好者的故事,他还写过两首诗赞美奥斯汀。二十世纪以来,一些学者将奥斯汀视为英语文学最伟大的作者之一,甚至有人将她与莎士比亚相提并论。另一方面,也有人对奥斯汀持批评意见。比奥斯汀稍晚的英国女作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特批评她的视角过於狭隘。马克·吐温则更为尖刻地说「一个图书馆只要没有奥斯汀的书就是好图书馆」[1]。作品列表 《理性与感性》(Sense and Sensibility,1811年) 《傲慢与偏见》(Pride and Prejudice,1813年) 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》(Mansfield Park,1814年) 《爱玛》(Emma,1815) 《诺桑觉寺》(Northanger Abbey,1818年,死後出版) 《劝导》(Persuasion,1818年,死後出版) 《Lady Susan》 《The Watsons》(未完成) 《Sanditon》(未完成) 《Henry and Eliza》 《The Three Sisters》 《Love and Friendship》 《The History of England》 《Catharine, or the Bower》 Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction set among the gentry have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature Amongst scholars and critics, Austen's realism and biting social commentary have cemented her historical importance as a writerAusten lived her entire life as part of a small and close-knit family located on the lower fringes of English 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 Austen's development as a professional writer Austen's artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years until she was about thirty-five years old During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she tried and then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing itAusten's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the eighteenth century and are part of the transition to nineteenth-century realism Austen's plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security Like those of Samuel Johnson, one of the strongest influences on her writing, her works are concerned with moral issuesDuring Austen's lifetime, because she chose to publish anonymously, her works brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews Through the mid-nineteenth century, her novels were admired mainly by members of the literary elite However, the publication of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1869 introduced her to a far wider public as an appealing personality and kindled popular interest in her works By the 1940s, Austen had become widely accepted in academia as a "great English writer" The second half of the twentieth century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship, which explored many aspects of her novels: artistic, ideological, and historical In popular culture, a Janeite fan culture has developed, centered on Austen's life, her works, and the various film and television adaptations of themJane Austen英文简介较长,我给你的内容是重点,详情可登陆以下网址: http://enwikipediaorg/wiki/Jane_Austen希望帮到你啦,如耶~
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