Jane Austen’s Influences Throughout Jane Austen’s life as an author she influenced a great sum of people. Although she was very popular, she didn’t succeed in her fame all by herself; Austen was also influenced by a number of people. Many of Austen’s influences were women. Back in those times, women were just starting to be recognized not just as wives and child-barriers, but as writers and above all, gothic writers.
In her younger years, Austen would often get books from her local libraries. She would read gothic novels, poems, classics, and literature about the conduct of women. Austen grew to love gothic novels inspired by Ann Rodcliffe, she began to use the same descriptive writing style in Northanger Abbey. Authors, by the names of Maria Edgeworth and Frances …show more content…
What she did, she did perfectly.... She wrote of the times in which she lived, of the class of people with which she associated, and in the language which was usual to her as an educated lady. Of romance—what we generally mean when we speak of romance—she had no tinge: heroes and heroines with wonderful adventures there are none in her novels. Of great criminals and hidden crimes she tells us nothing. But she places us in a circle of gentlemen and ladies, and charms us while she tells us with an unconscious accuracy how men should act to women, and women act to men. It is not that her people are all good; and, certainly, they are not all wise. The faults of some are the anvils on which the virtues of others are hammered till they are bright as steel. In the comedy of folly, I know no novelist who has beaten her. The letters of Mr. Collins, a clergyman in Pride and Prejudice, would move laughter in a low-church archbishop." (Anthony Trollope, 1870).
Trollope completely grasps the idea of Jane Austen’s writing. Her goal to be a historic writer was met countless times with her talented writing. May everyone get to see how one writer can shape literature
In her younger years, Austen would often get books from her local libraries. She would read gothic novels, poems, classics, and literature about the conduct of women. Austen grew to love gothic novels inspired by Ann Rodcliffe, she began to use the same descriptive writing style in Northanger Abbey. Authors, by the names of Maria Edgeworth and Frances …show more content…
What she did, she did perfectly.... She wrote of the times in which she lived, of the class of people with which she associated, and in the language which was usual to her as an educated lady. Of romance—what we generally mean when we speak of romance—she had no tinge: heroes and heroines with wonderful adventures there are none in her novels. Of great criminals and hidden crimes she tells us nothing. But she places us in a circle of gentlemen and ladies, and charms us while she tells us with an unconscious accuracy how men should act to women, and women act to men. It is not that her people are all good; and, certainly, they are not all wise. The faults of some are the anvils on which the virtues of others are hammered till they are bright as steel. In the comedy of folly, I know no novelist who has beaten her. The letters of Mr. Collins, a clergyman in Pride and Prejudice, would move laughter in a low-church archbishop." (Anthony Trollope, 1870).
Trollope completely grasps the idea of Jane Austen’s writing. Her goal to be a historic writer was met countless times with her talented writing. May everyone get to see how one writer can shape literature