Jane Austen was an English novelist, who spent her life in middle
class society; which she described intimately and with ironical
humor in her novels, the most famous which are Sense and Sensi-
bility; Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion. She was the first
English writer who gave the novel their modem characteristics               【A1】________
through the treatment of everyday life. Since Austen was widely            【A2】________
read in her lifetime she published her works anonymously. The
most emergent preoccupation of her bright, young heroines is              【A3】________
courtship and finally marriage. Austen herself never married. Jane
Austen was mostly tutored hat home, and irregularly at school, but
she accepted a broader education than many women of her time. She  【A4】________
started to write for family amusement as a child. Her parents were
avid reader. Very shy about her writing. she wrote on small pieces        【A5】________
of paper that she slipped under the desk. In her letters she observed
the daily lives of her family and friends in an intimate and gossipy        【A6】________
manner. Austen's father supported his daughter's writing aspirations
and tried to help her get a publisher. Austen never married,
but her social life was positive and she had suitors and romantic            【A7】________
dreams. Austen well connected with the middling-rich landed gentry    【A8】________
that she portrayed in her novels. Austen was focused on middle-class   【A9】________
provincial life with humor and under standing. She depicted minor
landed gentry, country clergymen and their families, there marriage    【A10】________
mainly determined women's social status.

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