Compare And Contrast Jane Austen S Pride And Prejudice And Emily Bronte S Wuthering Heights Doc

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was the seventh child and second daughter of an Anglican rector in a country parish in Hampshire, England. At the age of twelve, she began to write parodies of popular literary works, and set her hand to her first serious writing project when she was nineteen. In 1795, she began a novel called Elinor and Marianne that was finally published in 1810 as ‘Sense and Sensibility’. She started writing First Impressions in 1796; it was initially rejected for publication, but later saw print in 1812 as Pride and Prejudice. She began work in 1799 on a novel called Susan which was published posthumously in 1818 as Northanger Abbey. She wrote three other novels as well - Mansfield Park (1813), Emma (1815), and Persuasion(published posthumously in 1818).Her personal life was a happy but quiet one, consisting largely of her writing, along with the kind of country amusements - balls, parties, and teas - described in her novels. Jane Austen died in 1817 of what is now believed to have been Addison’s disease.. Her brother Henry arranged for the publication of her last two novels after her death. Only then did people become aware of the author of these popular works of literature- all the novels published during her lifetime had been published anonymously.

Emily Bronte (1818-1848) was born in Yorkshire, England (where Wuthering Heights is set), the fifth of six children of Patrick and Maria Bronte. The isolation of the Bronte children seems to have generated a rich life of the imagination. She and her sisters Anne and Charlotte began writing poetry at an early age, and actually published a book of poems under male pseudonyms in 1846. Before the publication of their book of poetry, while they were still in their teens, the girls spent years writing their own fictional narratives about two imaginary islands in the Pacific, Gondal and Gaaldine.
Ultimately, the three Bronte sisters all had novels published. Charlotte’s Jane Eyre was an immediate best-seller,

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