She was a famous English novelwoman, the founder of romance novels whose influence could be compared to Shakespeare's, who regarded her as a national treasure and printed her head on the pound sterling. Two long centuries later, why is she still a role model for countless women?
Jane Austen was born in 1775 to a family in the south of England to a father who graduated from Oxford University and served as parishal governor there for more than forty years, a learned pastor. Jane Austen was deeply influenced by family education, and began to read a large number of literary works from an early age, thus accumulating a deep literary background. Jane had a dream of being a writer, but her mother only wanted her to marry a nobleman, and at that time in feudal England, a woman's fate was to marry a good husband and spend her life fulfilling the duties of a wife and mother.
Her mother had taken her to visit the richest family in town, but Jane did not accept a marriage without love, believing that a woman could support herself by her own ability, and decisively rejected the marriage that would make her rich for a lifetime.
In 1796, at the age of twenty, Jane met Tom Lefroy, a lawyer intern who had come to Hampshire from London with Jane's brother Henry, who was handsome, intelligent, but also very poor. He had no interest in the simplicity of country life, and even ridiculed Jane's work.
During the days they spent together, they fought in the woods, they danced at crowded dances, Jane was better at baseball than Tom, and Tom gave Jane a copy of Tom Jones.
Soon after getting along, Tom discovers Jane Austen, who is in touch with his heart, and Jane also discovers that there is an upright and sincere soul hidden under Tom's bohemian appearance, and she has fallen in love with this clever young Irish lawyer at the beginning of her love, and the two have found countless common interests and hobbies with each other, and fall in love.
However, Jane's priest family wants her future son-in-law to have financial power, her mother does not like Tom, and the Lefroy family, which has 6 children, is also determined to marry the rich family, so they ask Tom to return to Ireland, and the two have never seen each other again.
Time passed, Jane's work swept all over London, and Tom had become a brilliant lawyer and chief judge of Ireland, naming his eldest daughter Jane. In my name, in your name, if life were only as it first saw, how good it would be. In her short life, she wrote 6 of the greatest works of English literature, some of which seem to hide shadows of the two.
If you can't marry love, you'd rather never marry for life. Jane Austen longed for a sincere marriage, as she put it: "Anything can be endured, except for a marriage without love." Unwilling to succumb to anything, poverty, loneliness, or even long years, she infused all unfinished emotions into her literary creation.
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The lifelong unmarried woman died of illness at the age of 41 and was buried in Winchester Cathedral. Her life was as brilliant as fireworks, short and beautiful, only to dedicate her full light, which is the life of the legendary British female writer Jane Austen.
May every girl fantasize about the beauty of love, may every girl marry love, and may all the waiting not be disappointed.
Just like Elizabeth and Darcy in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, many misunderstandings and prejudices were dispelled, and a happy marriage was finally achieved.