Geburtsdatum | Samstag, 16. Dezember 1775 |
Geburtsort | Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, England |
Todesort | Winchester |
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Beschreibung | Jane Austen (/ˈɒstɪn, ˈɔːs-/; 16. Dezember 1775 - 18. Juli 1817) war eine englische Romanautorin, die vor allem für ihre sechs großen Romane bekannt ist, in denen sie den britischen Landadel am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts interpretiert, kritisiert und kommentiert. Austen thematisiert in ihren Romanen häufig die Abhängigkeit der Frauen von der Ehe im Streben nach gesellschaftlichem Ansehen und wirtschaftlicher Sicherheit. Ihre Werke kritisieren die Empfindungsromane der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts und sind Teil des Übergangs zum literarischen Realismus des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ihre beißende Ironie, ihr Realismus und ihr sozialer Kommentar haben ihr die Anerkennung von Kritikern und Wissenschaftlern eingebracht. |
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
