Jane Austen

Persuasi n es la ltima novela escrita por Jane Austen. La empez a escribir poco tiempo despu s de haber terminado Emma, la termin de escribir en agosto de 1816. Austen muri a la edad de 41 a os en 1817, no obstante Persuasi n fue publicada como trabajo p stumo en 1818. Persuasi n est conectada con La abad a de Northanger no solamente por haber sido publicada junto a sta en un solo tomo dos a os m s tarde, sino tambi n porque ambas historias toman lugar en Bath, balneario al que Jane acud a en aquella poca.

In her final novel, as in her earlier ones, Jane Austen uses a love story to explore and gently satirize social pretensions and emotional confusion. Persuasion follows the romance of Anne Elliot and naval officer Frederick Wentworth. They were happily engaged until Anne's friend, Lady Russell, persuaded her that Frederick was "unworthy." Now, eight years later, Frederick returns, a wealthy captain in the navy, while Anne's family teeters on the edge of bankruptcy. They still love each other, but their past mistakes threaten to keep them apart.

Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language.

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, better known as a comedy of manners, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England, London and Kent between 1792 and 1797 and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.

Pride and Prejudice is a protofeminist critique of contemporary education and marriage that aligns Austen less with sentimental novelists like Fanny Burney and Maria Edgeworth and more with feminist thinkers like Mary Wollstonecraft. Austen’s humour is deceptive; beneath the surface lays a deep dissatisfaction with the type of life the term “gentility” forces on women.

The story revolves around two sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Elinor is level-headed and self-controlled. Marianne is passionate and impulsive. When their father dies, his first son by a previous marriage takes possession of the family home against the fathers dying wishes. Elinor, Marianne and their mother remove to a cottage and each sister meets a man in whom she is interested. As with other Austen novels, requited love does not come easily, and many revelations and a trip to London are needed before a resolution can be found. When Sense and Sensibility first appeared, the words of its title had enormous cultural weight: Austen was addressing and also satirizing notions of sensibility, the meaning of which, while akin to the current use of "sensitivity," was already a subject of debate. Sensibility had been considered the incorporation of reason and feeling, a virtue according to many that would lead people into correct and benevolent behaviour and that marked them as intellectually and morally superior.

Mr. en Mrs. Dashwood wonen met hun drie dochters, Elinor, Marianne en Margaret, op hun landgoed, Norland Park. Als Mr. Dashwood komt te overlijden laat hij alles aan zijn zoon John Dashwood - van zijn eerste vrouw - na. John Dashwood belooft zijn vader dat hij goed voor zijn stiefmoeder en zijn drie halfzusjes zal zorgen, maar zijn vrouw, Fanny Dashwood, weet hem daarvan af te houden. De weduwe Dashwood en haar drie dochters moeten dus verhuizen aangezien John Dashwood hun huis heeft ge rfd, en zoeken naar een eigen huisje dat ze kunnen betalen maar toch een beetje ruim is. Ondertussen wonen Mr. en Mrs. John Dashwood al bij hen en logeert de broer van Fanny Dashwood, Mr. Edward Ferrars, er ook tijdelijk. Edward en Elinor raken erg op elkaar gesteld maar Fanny maakt Mrs. Dashwood duidelijk dat zij de twee liever niet met elkaar ziet trouwen.