Austen saw her family going through a series of ailments. She herself was a victim to long period of illnesses which culminated in her death. All her experiences with health issues made their way in her works. […]
Jane Austen showed many of her characters being affected by health issues. This in turn shaped the plots of those novels. Her works also served as an analysis of the 19th century society when tragic and fatal illnesses were common. […]
Jane Austen spent her final years battling with illness. However, she maintained a cheerful temperament and even wrote a humorous poem before her death. […]
War, strife, revolutionary ideals, political upheaval—such were the times when JaneAusten was writing. Changes in social structure and beliefs had a significant impact on her life and works. […]
The revolution sweeping across Britain in 18th and 19th centuries had an undeniable influence on Jane Austen’s works. Her writings bear a subtle testimony to the horrors of war and political turbulence. […]
Jane Austen lived during the turbulent political times that saw the French Revolution. Wartime bears its markings on not just her and her family’s lives, but also on her writings. […]
Austen’s fiction rails against the strict determinism of rank and its supposed connection to worthiness. Her most admirable characters gain position or status not by inherited titles or estates but by demonstrated character, behavior, growth, and achievement. […]
Most of Jane Austen’s fictional characters were below the lesser nobility. Her books also criticize the complex system that today we’d call social class, rather than condition. […]
Jane Austen grew up in a highly stratified social system. However, she didn’t include any minor characters higher than a viscount in her major fiction. […]
While there are claims that Austen focused her stories on ‘the aristocracy’, her books actually provide little mention of them. In her finished works of fiction, she rarely acknowledges the existence of royalty. […]
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