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Jane Austen
1775 AD — 1817 AD
English novelist whose fictional conversations and changing judgments reward reading a scene rather than treating every character’s words as the author’s advice.
Author and source reference ↗Life and writing
Jane Austen (1775–1817) wrote six major novels that examine social relationships through individual situations and contrasting perspectives. The museum’s account highlights irony and free indirect style, in which a reader encounters a character’s perspective within narration. This makes the distinction between novelist, narrator and speaker important. A memorable line can reveal a character’s limits rather than offer a rule the author asks everyone to follow.
Jane Austen’s House — Jane Austen ↗ Museum overview: lifetime, six novels, irony and free indirect style
In the linked 1894 Pride and Prejudice, Darcy’s declaration and subsequent letter lead into Elizabeth’s reconsideration of what she believed. Read Chapters XXXIV–XXXVI as a sequence: an immediate reaction, a new account and an attempt to compare it with remembered conduct. The selected supplied passages concern a declaration and self-questioning. Keeping the scene around such words gives the reader more to examine than an isolated sentence.
Project Gutenberg — Pride and Prejudice ↗ PG1342: 1894 title page; novel Chapters XXXIV–XXXVI
Reading this voice
Begin with Chapters XXXIV–XXXVI, separating Saintsbury’s preface from Austen’s novel. The two selected contributor passages retain their wording and unverified source status. The museum biography and related edition provide context, not blanket authentication for the 437 records under this label. Profile life years are documented separately; they do not fill the entries’ unknown composition dates or merge other name variants.
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Profile sources and editorial status
Original agent-assisted editorial profile, checked 2026-10-05. No human review is recorded. Life dates are recorded to the year; they do not date individual quotations.
- Jane Austen’s House — Jane Austen ↗
Limited original factual paraphrase and biographical context. No modern biography, portrait or popularity data reproduced. Reference checked 2026-10-05.
- Project Gutenberg — Pride and Prejudice ↗
Catalogue metadata and historical text checked for original related-reading guidance. No book words/images imported; this does not authenticate every archive attribution. Reference checked 2026-10-05.