Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in "Northanger Abbey"; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in "Mansfield Park"; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in "Sense and Sensibility"; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in "Persuasion" succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and Emma - 'a heroine whom no one but myself will like' teased Austen - yet another irresistible character on fire with imagination and foresight.Indeed not unlike her renowned creator, Jane Austen is as sure-footed in her steps through society's whirlpools of convention and prosaic mores as she is in her sometimes restrained but ever precise and enduring prose
AUSTEN JANE
Jane Austen nació el 16 de diciembre de 1775 en Steventon, Hampshire, Inglaterra, y murió el 18 de julio de 1817 en Winchester. Fue novelista y escribió obras que retratan la vida cotidiana y las relaciones sociales de su tiempo. Entre sus títulos más conocidos se encuentran Orgullo y prejuicio, Sentido y sensibilidad, Emma y Mansfield Park. Su estilo se caracteriza por el uso de la ironía y la observación detallada de las costumbres de la sociedad inglesa de finales del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX. Vivió gran parte de su vida en el ámbito rural y familiar.
