dint of loving books by the author, we just want to learn more about his life. So, obviously, that of Jane Austen interested. Because it is part of its authors that I never get tired to read, and like the heroine of Lost In Austen (mini series English I advise you), I often at a moment of grief, immersing myself in Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and others.
outset, David Cecil announced that knows very little about the life of Jane Austen. Most of his correspondence with Cassandra, her elder sister, was destroyed by the latter, in an effort to protect his sister.
So does one really learns about this writer?
she is a child of the 18th century especially. A daughter of the gentry in the marriage between a man intelligent and cultivated, and daughter a reverend, ancestors a little more aristocratic than her husband. What characterizes the Austen family, according to the author, who paints a portrait to be a little bit too enthusiastic, it's a keen intelligence, a love of wit and a hint of irony, a family united although rooted in its time. After some tests
mini schools where she followed her sister Cassandra, Jane spends the rest of his childhood home. Educational attempts have not seemed to correspond to the two sisters, their parents prefer to keep with them. Thus, they are educated just as they see fit (the author made the connection with the sisters Bennet, but very slightly).
Jane Austen seems to have been an avid reader, (like any good writer?), Both books seriously as works lighter. "But as all avid readers of romance, she also appreciated those she did not need to read it seriously." She seems to have particularly liked Samuel Johnson (which I do not know anything, he seems to be the author of that famous phrase "Hell is paved with good intentions.")
The sisters remain unmarried Austen, one because his boyfriend dies in India (Cassandra), and the other because she will never find her suitors wants to marry her, or she could marry. (It seems likely that she had a heartache or two, and she refuses a marriage proposal, or at least accept it, and will return very quickly on its commitment to end it.)
's death their father, Jane, her mother and sister are reducing their lifestyle, (As Dashwood sisters and their mother in Sense and Sensibility ") and are forced to live a more austere. Jane does not seem to have been too saddened and divides his time mainly between visits to family and removals to other places. One senses in the extracts of letters from Jane to Cassandra, a deep commitment Family in general and it seems to have loved his nephews and nieces.
One of Jane's brothers, Edward, finally installing his mother and sisters, in what will be the final resting place of Jane, Chawton.
Although she has always written, Jane seems to have taken the time to write seriously until about 34 years. (That leaves me some hope!) It will rewrite some of his old works and then write new (Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion)
She seems to have preferred to confine the sphere of the closed world where she lived for source inspiration, for the sake of verisimilitude. Thus, these novels are partly inspired by her experiences, stories we told him what she has observed (she seems to have been very thin and very insightful), and his feelings.
is what I have learned from this book, it is still interesting, I seemed heavy enough to read and sometimes pontificating. I could not finish it completely.
It seems like we know very little about the life of the novelist, it is difficult to make a book less than romanticize. But then, David Cecil does not really do it. We feel his love to Jane Austen reflected in what he writes, but he can never really capture. Initially moderately interested, I ended up profoundly bored by reading diagonally, until I say it was stupid to beat a dead horse.
After all, the best way to know Jane Austen will always be the act of reading one of his works. I prefer to dive back soon in one of her famous novels rather than refuse to give in to no avail. A meeting
missed so with this book.
A little quote anyway:
"Nobody," she cried, never corresponds to our expectations, nor feelings, nor in his actions, nor joys, or in its suffering. "
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