JANE AUSTEN'S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - 5^C LINGUISTICO

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MISS AUSTEN!

Jane Austen was born on 16 December in Steventon, Hampshire, England. While not widely known in her own time, her novels of love among the landed gentry gained popularity after 1869, and her reputation skyrocketed in the 20th century. Her novels, including "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility", are considered literary classics, bridging the gap between romance and realism.

Here you can read about the Jane Austen Centre in Bath.

“Jane Austen is perhaps the best known and best loved of Bath’s many famous residents. She paid two long visits here towards the end of the eighteenth century and from 1801 to 1806 Bath was her home. Her intimate knowledge of the city is reflected in two of her novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion", which are largely set in Bath.

The city remains much as Jane Austen knew it; the streets and buildings recalling the elegant, well-ordered world that she portrays so brilliantly in her novels. Now the pleasure of exploring Jane Austen’s Bath can be enhanced by visiting the Jane Austen Centre. Here, in a Georgian town house in the heart of the city, the visitor can find out more about the importance of Bath in Jane Austen’s life and work.” 

Maggie Lane

REVISING JANE AUSTEN ~ 5^C LINGUISTICO

Jane Austen’s present-day popularity derives chiefly from the fact her heroines, although two centuries old, act as romantic beacons for the modern age. With a universal message of marrying for love rather than money, they provide examples, though fictional, of women choosing husbands due to strings of the heart and not of the purse. Read here. 

Here you can revise Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice.

A MODERN ADAPTATION OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Pride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy is a  delightful, modernised retelling of Jane Austen's beloved story as the ambitious but amiable Elizabeth Bennet schemes to win over a sexually attractive bachelor who is several rungs above her in the social ladder ...  Read here.

ENJOYING PRIDE AND PREJUDICE!

I hope you will enjoy these videos about Jane Austen's most widely known novel.  You can also read it here.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MISS AUSTEN!

Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775. Today would have been her 238th birthday, but no doubt she is timeless! We still learn a lot about family, love, friendship, and what it means to be a woman from reading her enchanting novels of manners. We still enjoy the plots, characterisations, and settings as well as the polished and elegant style of her novels  which  are deservedly considered literary classics, proposing a balance between reason and feelings, bridging the gap between romance and realism. 

What better way to celebrate her birthday than to listen to Sense and Sensibility and Emma audio books? A very special treat for these freezing autumn evenings!

And don't forget to read this article  about Jane Austen's  attention to women’s issues!

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Here you can download and read the eBook of Jane Austen's all-time novel and then you can listen to the full audio-book. 

Click here if you need a thorough revision of the novel. 
Here you can watch the best clips of the 2005 British film based on Jane Austen's novel.