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It was a time of clashing armies and warring ideas, a time of censorship and state surveillance. Enclosures were remaking the landscape; European empire building was changing the world; science and technology were opening up a whole universe of new possibilities. Apart from five years spent in Bath between and and three years in Southampton, a few months at school, and occasional visits and holidays, she spent all her life in rural Hampshire.

She never married. She died in Winchester on July 18, , aged 41, and was buried in Winchester Cathedral. In the four years between the end of and the end of , she published four novels— Sense and Sensibility , Pride and Prejudice, M ansfield Par k, and E mma.

Another two novels— N orthanger A bbey and Persuasion — were published right at the end of , the year she died. Two hundred years on, her work is astonishingly popular. The two youngest brothers, Frank and Charles, born either side of Jane, went into the navy and led lives full of excitement and danger. We know what most of these people looked like; we know about their careers, their marriages, their children. But in spite of all their efforts, Jane remains only a slight figure vanishing into the background, her face turned away—as it is in the only finished portrait we have of her.

The more determined our pursuit, the more elusive Jane becomes. Where should we look for her? Will we find her in modern-day Bath, in the rain-drenched gold stone buildings that are now flats or dental surgeries, in the park that occupies the place where the Lower Assembly Rooms once stood, or at the Upper Rooms, which were rebuilt almost entirely after fire damage in World War II?

She did live there, for eight years, and her sister, Cassandra, for nearly In the middle of the 19th century it was divided into separate dwellings; a century later it was turned back into one. Dozens of people have lived there. And if any trace of Jane remains, then the thousands of tourists who trudge through the rooms each year will have driven it away.

These are displayed in a narrow room off the largest bedroom, sitting dumbly in their glass cases, carefully lit but offering no sense of the woman who once wore them. The rectory at Steventon—the house Jane lived in until she was 25—is long gone.

The church it served survives. In the spring of the year-old Jane Austen was living not in the countryside, nor in Bath, but in Southampton, in a house rented by her sea captain brother Francis, usually known as Frank. What the guidebook glosses over is the fact that Southampton was also a naval dockyard. In addition to press-ganging—the state-sanctioned abduction scheme by which the Royal Navy ensured it had enough men to sail its ships—both the army and the navy welcomed into their ranks men who would otherwise have been in prison.

Jane seems to have enjoyed some aspects of her time in Southampton well enough, however. She talks in her letters about walking on the ramparts and rowing on the river Itchen with her nephews. Together with her sister, Cassandra, their mother, and until his sudden death at the beginning of their father, she lodged in various parts of Bath—in Sydney Place, Green Park Buildings, Gay Street, and Trim Street—making lengthy visits to family and for months at a time removing to seaside resorts, among them Dawlish, Sidmouth, Ramsgate where Wickham trifles with Georgiana Darcy in Pride and Prejudice , and Lyme Regis the setting for some of the pivotal scenes in Persuasion.

It was during this period, in the spring of , that she first had a novel accepted for publication. That novel was Susan, almost certainly a version of the book we know as N orthanger A bbey. We know, too, that Jane had written at least one other full-length novel before she moved to Bath—a book she called First I mpressions. This might have been an earlier version of Pride and Prejudice, and it may or may not be the same book her father offered, unsuccessfully, to the publisher Cadell in A neat copy of Lady Susan, a short novella in letters, is written out on paper that bears an watermark, although it seems probable from the immature style that it was composed earlier.

Maybe she stopped writing prose altogether. Maybe she was working on preexisting drafts or on pieces that were later incorporated into the other novels. Maybe she was writing something she later destroyed. One thing we do know for sure is that in April , only a week or two before Jane was due to leave Southampton for a lengthy visit to her brother Edward at Godmersham, she wrote to the publishing firm that had bought Susan.

But what effect this letter had on Jane is unclear. She soon had other projects in hand, however. It appeared in October and must have been completed some time before the end of , because by April Jane was busy correcting the proofs.

Before Jane could think about sending a novel off, she would have had to copy it out by hand, which would have taken a number of weeks, perhaps a couple of months. Then she had to send the package off, wait for the publisher to read the novel, respond, and negotiate terms. Jane might already have been working on Sense and Sensibility before she wrote to Crosby to inquire about Susan. Too tempting, perhaps.

Having waited for six long years, why write to Crosby then, when she was just about to move? Why the punning initials of the pen name?

Why not simply change a few details and publish the novel elsewhere, without alerting him? Why not enlist the help of her brother Henry, who had presumably been involved in selling the manuscript in the first place?

At least it speaks, and at least it was written by her. The problem with any of these imaginings is that what Henry said was wrong. The draft fragment we know as The W atsons is dotted with crossings out, additions, and alterations. We even have an earlier attempt at an ending to Persuasion that Jane was dissatisfied with and rewrote. The more words you know, the more you understand when you read and speak English.

In this unit, you will learn about synonyms and categories of words. There will be fun activities to do and games to play to help you enlarge your English vocabulary.

The first activities will prepare you to have short conversations about topics of your choice and to read and understand a story with difficult words. Log ind. Redskaber Metoder Projekter. Language Use. Notify me of new comments via email.

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