Term Papers on Jane Austen

Term Paper Title	Jane Austen
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Jane Austen

Jane Austen had many influences in her life that led to the material written in her books.  All of Austen's books "focus on young women in their path to marriage." (Southam, pg. 2) Jane Austen wrote on life as she knew and events that could have or did influence her.
     Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 in Sevington, Hampshire, located in England.  Her father was a Reverend for the church, while her mother was born in to an "aristocratic family."  (Tucker, pg. 6) Jane was the seventh of eight children.  Her five older brothers, James (1765), George (1766), Edward (1768), Henry (1771), and Francis (1774) all became well known men of their time, with good connections, which was very important in that time.  Austen also had one younger brother, Charles, who was born in 1779.  (Howard, pg. 11)  However, the most important sibling of Jane Austen was her older sister, Cassandra.  As well as being born in the same year (Howard, pg. 11), "they shared the same interests, enthusiasm and sense of humor.  (Wright, pg. 7)  "The Austen's were a happy, lively, reputedly good-natured and sweet tempered family.  Family squabbles were almost unknown."  (Wright, pg. 6) The Austens spent their nights together.  They played "charades around a candle-lit table.  After the game, the girls sewed or embroidered while the boys read aloud."  (Wright, pg. 7)
     Jane and Cassandra spent their whole life together, from birth till Austen's death, where Jane died "with her head pillowed on Cassandra's shoulder."  (Wright, pg. 11) At age 7 , Cassandra and Jane "sent to a small school run by a relative. (Wright, pg.7) They didn't stay there long because Mrs. Cawley, the teacher and relative, moved away to Southampton.  (Wright, pg. 11) Soon after Jane left Mrs. Cawleys school, she caught a horrible fever.  It was called " putrid throat, a septic throat characteristic of typhus fever."  (Howard, pg. 14) This fever almost killed Jane and Cassandra both.  (Wright, pg. 7) This happened in 1792. (Wright, pg. 7) In 1797, Jane and Cassandra were sent to Mrs. Latournelle's Abbey School of Reading.  They spent two years at this school to learn how to be "a lady".  (Wright, pg. 7) After that, Jane went home and was "home taught" from there on out.  (Howard, pg. 14) It was here that Jane was "schooled in household management and taught the ‘feminine arts' of singing, dancing, drawing and playing the piano." (Wright, pg. 7)  Just like the women characters of her books.  Jane's whole family was well educated, so she was no different.  (Howard, pg. 10) Austen later said about herself "I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress."  (Tucker, pg. 3) Although Jane said this she was "very educated.  She knew how to speak french, some Italian and Latin.  She read Shakespeare, Milton, Johnson and Cowper (big poets of her time)."  (Tucker, pg. 7)
     Jane lived in Steventon for 25 years.  She moved in 1801 with her parents and sister to Bath.  They stayed there until after her fathers death in 1804.  Jane had a lot of depressing moments in 1804.  A month after Jane's fathers death, her "closest friend, Anne Lefroy" died.  (Southam, pg.13)After that Jane moved to Southampton in 1806 with her mother, Cassandra and Martha Lloyd, Jane's lifelong friend.  From there the women moved to Chawton in Hampshire in July of 1809.  Jane stayed in Chawton until 1817.  (Tucker, pg. 6) All this moving was because they had really no means of support since Jane's father died.  As we can see in the Jane Austen books, women didn't really work.  The men were the full means of support in the family.  That's why it was so important for the parents to marry off their daughters.  In 1817, Jane moved one final time to Winchester because of her "ill health".  (Tucker, pg. 6) It was here that Jane died from Addison's disease on July 18, 1817 at 4:30 am.  ( Southam, pg. 13) Jane's "last wishes were ‘I want nothing but death,' because she was in so much pain."  (Southam, pg. 13)
     Jane spent ...

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