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Jane Austen(By 尹艳红，龙雨， 周延，周初晴)
Brief introduction Today we will introduce Jane Austen, a
famous British novelist. Our introduction will be divided into four parts, childhood , marriage, career and death. Now let’s come to the first part, childhood.
Childhood Jane Austen was born in a pastor family. Her family
was not rich, but she lived a very peaceful life in her teen age. She had 7 sisters and brothers and she ranked 6. She had never entered any formal schools to get education. But she once went to her sister’s school to accompany her. Her sister Cassandra was her best friend in her whole life. Jane’s family were always happy, but money remained a big problem. So they had to drop from school when Jane was 11 years old. However, at home, Jane received the best education. Her father was her first tutor and she taught her a lot of knowledge. Jane was keen on reading and writing.(computer: Jane’s picture ) This is the only picture of Jane. It is painted by her sister Cassandra.
Marriage Now I will say sth about her love story. In 1796,
20-year-old Jane met Tom Lefroy ,a smart and charming man. Jane fell in love with the young Irish attorney at the first sight. But Jane’s family were strongly against the love between them. They hold the view that Jane’s husband should be a top banana
who owned a large fortune. Alas, Tom was a poor guy at that time. Meanwhile, Tom’s family also wanted him to marry a rich woman. Therefore they urged Tom to return to Ireland quickly. Faced with the pressure and responsibility from both families, the two lovers had to be apart. Tom was engaged with a lady in London very soon. Later he became Chief Justice of Ireland in 1852. It seems that Jane never forgot about Tom. She remained single all her life and never got married. In 2007, Jane’s love story was adapted into the film Becoming Jane . This film stars Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy. Here are some posts of this film. (Computer: showing the pictures) This movie is really romantic and worth seeing.
Career I will lead you to the third part, career. Jane Austen’s
first love ended up in forcing two families. However, this experience was a key to her understanding of how love works and how she became the writer we know and love today. After that , Jane chose to put all of her energy and feelings into the creation of literature. Through Jane’s life , she had 6 works. They are Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield
Park, Northanger Abbey, Emma and Persuasion. (Computer:
showing covers of six novels while reading) Almost all of her works were modified by herself again and again. Although she
had only six works, she was spoken highly of because of her unique description by many masters in history, such as Scott Walter , lady Browning and so on. Austen’s works are warm welcomed ,especially by female readers. All of her works are adapted into films .Six films have been made of
Pride and
Prejudice, and Emma has been adapted 5 times . Persuasion , Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey have also been filmed.
Here some pictures from these films. (Computer: showing pictures of these films.)
Death In 1817,not long after Pride and Prejudice was
published, Jane got sick. At first ,Jane paid little attention to her illness devoted herself in her new work
Persuasion.
Unfortunately, her health got much worse . So she had to move to Manchester to get better treatment. Suffering from unbearable pains ,Jane still remained optimistic. And she wrote a farewell letter in secret. Two months later ,she died with serious sickness. By then ,she was only 41 . Later she was buried in Winchester Cathedral. This is the picture of her farewell letter and her tomb.(Computer : showing pictures of her writing and tomb)
Ending So much for our introduction of Jane Austen. Thank
you very much.