- Ingane yesikhombisa kaGeorge Austen noCassandra Leigh Austen, uJane Austen wazalelwa eSteventon, idolobhana eliseningizimu yeNgilandi ngo-1775.
- Ngesikhathi sokuphila kwakhe wagcwalisa amanoveli ayisithupha, kuhlanganise neNorgan Abbey, Sense kanye nokuzizwa, Ukuziqhenya nokubandlulula, iMansfield Park, Emma, kanye nokuThuthukisa . Zine zazo zanyatheliswa ngaphambi kokufa kwakhe.
- Ubaba wakhe uGeorge Austen, umfundisi, naye ugijima esikoleni kubafana emndenini wakubo kanye nasesikhwameni sokwengeza imali yomndeni.
- UCassandra Leigh Austen wayevela esikhundleni esiphakeme sezenhlalakahle kunomyeni wakhe futhi wanikeza uJane Austen umuzwa wesikhungo sezenhlalo esingaphansi kwamanveli akhe amaningi. Wayengabonakali ukuzisola ukuwa komphakathi, noma kunjalo, futhi wayengumfazi nomama ojabulayo emndenini.
- Ngo-1783, uJane Austen nodadewabo omdala uCassandra bafundiswa ukaninakazi u-Ann Cooper Cawley, ongumfelokazi wekhanda lase-Oxford. Ukusuka lapho, baqhubeka beya e-Abbey School, isikole sokubhoda samantombazane. Ngaphandle kwale minyaka, u-Austen wafundiswa nguyise wakhe.
- U-Austen wahlonipha amakhono akhe amahlaya ngokubhalela umndeni wakhe, ikakhulukazi, abafowabo abadala ase-Oxford abafundile, abathandekayo kakhulu. Nakuba wonke umndeni wawunobhala, u-Austen kuphela ongaba yincwadi yomlando.
- Intombazane enamahloni kakhulu, umndeni kaJane Austen kwakuyisizinda sezwe lakhe. Ngisho nalapho efika esikoleni, wenza abangane abambalwa, bakhetha inkampani kaCassandra.
- U-Austen wathola ulwazi lwakhe lokuphila olwandle - okubalulekile, isibonelo, ku- Persuasion - ngomfowabo uFrank, owayenomsebenzi ophumelelayo e-British Navy futhi wayesondele kakhulu kuJane.
- Ngothando lwakhe lokuqala, u-Austen wathola indaba efanelekayo enye yamanoveli akhe - okunye okwenziwe ukuthi kunezinto ezithile ezifana nekaMarianne Dashwood ku- Sense no-Sensibility. Into ayithandayo, uTom Lefroy, wayengumshana wase-Ireland womngane wakhe oseduze u-Anne Lefroy. Ukwazi ukuthi uTom uzolahlekelwa ifa lakhe uma eshada "akekho umuntu," u-Anne Lefroy wagijimela uTom waphuma kuleli zwe lapho ebonwa uthando. (Tom kamuva waba yiJaji eliyinhloko lase-Ireland.)
- Ngesikhathi abalandeli be-movie I-Jane Austen Book Club ingakhuthazwa ukuba bacabange, "UJane wayezokwenzenjani?" ngezikhathi zenkinga yothando, ukuphishekela kwakhe uTom Lefroy, okwephula isikhathi somphakathi wesikhathi sakhe, kubonisa ukuthi kungenzeka ukuthi akuyona into engcono kakhulu. UCassandra wayengumuntu onengqondo, ezama ukugcina uJane ehlola. Ngaphambi kokuba lo mshado uthinteke, uJane wamloba incwadi ethi, "Ungiklolodela kakhulu encwadini ende enhle enginayo kulo mzuzu owuthola kuwe, ukuthi ngiyesaba ukukutshela ukuthi mina nomngane wami wase-Ireland senza kanjani Zicabange wena konke okusemandleni akho okudansa nokudabuka endleleni yokudansa nokuhlala phansi ndawonye. "
- Okungenani okushiwo yi-biographer eyodwa ukuthi umzala kaJane Austen, u-Eliza, u-Comtesse de Feuillide, unikeze isibonelo sika-Elizabeth Bennett nokuphila kwakhe, nakuba ezinye izenzo zakhe zifana kakhulu noMary Crawford emhlabeni kaMansfield Park . Ngesikhathi evakashela i-Austens - eshiya umyeni wakhe ekhaya eFrance nenkosikazi yakhe-u-Eliza wathandana nabafowabo ababili bakaJane, uHenry noJames, ngesikhathi bedlala umndeni. (Indoda ka-Eliza yayiqondiswe ngesikhathi seFrance Revolution; empeleni wayezoshada no-Henry Austen.)
- I-Austen yesibili yothando oluphawulekayo olwenzekayo ngenkathi umndeni wawuvakashela ogwini eSidmouth e Devon ehlobo lika-1801. U-Austen wahlangana futhi wathandana nomfundisi osemusha, owenza izinhlelo zokuphinde ahlangane nomndeni ekuhambeni kwabo (okuhle bonisa ukuthi uhlele ukuphakamisa). Nokho, wafa ngokungalindelekile ngaphambi kokuba ajoyine. Lesi sigameko sasiqinisa ubuhlobo phakathi kwabadadewabo ababili, njengoba uCassandra elahlekelwe ngumyeni wakhe ngaphambili.
- UJane Austen wabhala uhlaka lokuqala lweSense no-Sensibility ekuqaleni kwawo-1790 wabe esilungisa kakhulu ngaphambi kokuba lushicilelwe ngo-1811. Ngokufanayo, iminyaka eyishumi nesithupha yayizodlula phakathi nesikhathi ubaba wakhe aqala ngaso ukuzama ukuthola ukuqala kokushicilelwa kanye nesikhathi inoveli yabonakala njengokuziqhenya nokucwasa ngo-1813.
- I-Northanger Abbey yathola ummemezeli ngo-1803 kodwa ayizange ishicilelwe kuze kube sekufeni kuka-Austen.
- Izezimali zaphoqeleka ukuthi i-Austens ihambe uSteventon kuBat, ushintsho oluvusa u-Austen kakhulu. Abanye abalobi bezobuciko bathi lesi simo silimaza ukubhala kwakhe, ngoba wayengenayo indawo yangasese yokubhala futhi waphoqelelwa kuBatho ukuba ahlanganyele kunanini ngaphambili.
- E-Bath, u-Austen wachitha isikhathi nomfanyana owaziwayo, owenza ingxoxo engcono kunezinye ezinikezwe edolobheni elincane - futhi ngubani ophethe imoto evulekile. Imihlangano yabo yaphazamisa umama wakhe, kodwa yahlinzeka u-Austen ngefolda eyengeziwe yokuklolodela udadewabo: "Kukhona into efana nokubandakanya phakathi kwethu nePaeton, okumele ngizivumele ukukhubazeka kwami nginesifiso esikhulu sokuphuma."
- Omunye u-faux pas wothando wangena lapho uJane Austen esamukela isinqumo somshado kuphela sokubuyekeza isinqumo sakhe ngakusasa ekuseni. Ummangaleli, uHarris Wither, wayeneminyaka eyisithupha emncane kunalokhu, engenazimpikiswano, futhi esheshayo. Eyamangala ngesiphakamiso, wamukela ngaleso sikhathi, wazi ukuthi ingcebo yakhe kanye nesimo sakhe kwakuyosho ukuphepha emndenini wakhe. Njengomlando wakhe wezobuciko, uPark Noonan ubhala ukuthi, "Lapho uMnu. Austen efa isabelo sabo singanciphisa kangangokuthi yena, unina noCassandra bangase babhekane no-penury ... ukuba bathi u-Harris Wither bekungaba yibuwula futhi ethanda ubugovu . " Noma kunjalo, ngemuva kokuchitha ubuthongo ebhekene nokucabangela impilo yakhe njengekusasa uMnu. Wither, waqeda ukubandakanya, wakha into ehlazola futhi wabeka ubudlelwano obuhlala njalo phakathi kobudlelwane phakathi kwemindeni yabo emibili.
- Lapho ubaba wakhe efa ngo-1805, u-Austen wayeqeda umsebenzi encwadini eyayiqala ngayo enesihloko esithi The Watsons. Kwakuyisikhathi esithile empilweni yakhe ukuthi wayengabhali noma abuyele okuthile. Ngemuva kwezinyanga ezimbalwa nje kuphela, u-Austen wabuyela enkulumweni eyayiqala ekuqaleni, uMnuz Susan .
- Ngo-1806, uNkk. Austen, Jane, Cassandra, nomngane wakhe, uMarta, bashiya uBath, ekugcineni bahlala ndawonye emzini waseChawton. Phakathi neminyaka u-Austen ayehlala e-Chawton Cottage, wavuka njalo ekuseni, wenza i-pianoforte ngaphambi kokuba omunye umuntu avuke, apheke ukudla kwasekuseni ekhaya, bese esethatha umhlalaphansi ukuze abhale, ngaphandle kwemisebenzi yasendlini. Kubonakala sengathi wayesebenza egumbini elinesigcawu kanye nendawo yokudlela, kodwa igumbi lalinomnyango onzima. U-Austen wenqabe ukulungiswa komnyango, ukuqinisekisa ukuthi unolwazi lomuntu.
- Iminyaka yeChawton yayikhiqiza kakhulu. Wabuye wakhipha futhi washicilela Ukuziqhenya Nokuzicwaba (1813) no- Sense no-Sensibility (1811), wabhala u-Emma (1815), uMansfield Park (1814), kanye nokuThuthukisa, okuyinto, kanye ne- Northanger Abbey, eyashicilelwa ngemuva. Phakathi nokuphila kwakhe, wathola ngo-L684.13 ngokuphelele kusukela ekubhaliseni kwakhe.
- Cishe ngo-1816, u-Austen waqala ukugula ngenxa yokugula okulimazayo nokubuhlungu, okungakaze kutholakale. Namuhla kukholelwa ukuthi bekuyizifo ze-Addisons, isifo sofuba sezinso. UCassandra wayenaye lapho efa ngo-1817 eneminyaka engu-41 ubudala. Wangcwatshwa eWinchester Cathedral.
- Cishe eminyakeni eyikhulu kamuva, uVirginia Woolf wabhala ngaye, "Lapha kwakukhona owesifazane oneminyaka engama-1800 ebhala ngaphandle kwenzondo, engenabuhlungu, ngaphandle kokwesaba, ngaphandle kokuphikisana, ngaphandle kokushumayela. Yileyo ndlela uShakespeare abhala ngayo nalapho abantu beqhathanisa uShakespeare noJane Austen , kungase kusho ukuthi izingqondo zombili zombili zaziqede zonke izithiyo; futhi ngenxa yalesi sizathu, asazi uJane Austen, futhi asazi uShakespeare, futhi ngenxa yalesi sizathu, uJane Austen uhlanganisa yonke into ayibhala, kanjalo noShakespeare . "
Uma ungakaze ufunde uJane Austen, futhi ufuna ukwazi ukuthi i-prose yakhe ifana nani, ungafunda ukushintshaniswa okufishane kusuka kokuziqhenya nokubandlulula kusihloko, "Izibonelo Zomuntu Wesibili."