Title; Discuss the concept of maternal and the power of Jane Austen as author, supported by the following texts.
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Jane Austen is one of the most influential novelists of British literature, which was largely because she was creating strong, unusual female characters during this period, and also because of her expertise of satire, form and irony. Conversely, her work stands out because of her sharp, satirical depiction of the late 18th century English society. Our fascination with Austen not only stops with her work, but with the woman herself. Austen was the daughter of a Hampshire clergyman, with eight siblings; she grew up in a happy close-knit family. She began writing at a young age, and family members would often circulate …show more content…
Although that may have been the case eighteenth century English society did not value an educated woman, nor did it see any reason for woman attending college unless for domestic and religious practices. It was not view necessary for woman to possess the knowledge of Greek or Latin. Austen lived in a society where woman were expected to be accomplished yet, not well educated. In a sense woman did not possess much authority and a woman’s social standing came from marriage. Ultimately, we could insinuate that women were objectified, seen as property and tools for childbirth. Hence, the maternal aspect, which surrounded Austen, whether it is her own family with seven siblings, or the societal pressures, placed upon woman at the time. However, if we take the context of the novel and the style it is constructed we could suggest a sense of maternal. For instance in Virginia Wolfe’s Jane Austen, she suggests that like other writers, she had to create the atmosphere in which her own peculiar genius could bear fruit. Wolfe suggests that Austen fumbles, she keeps us waiting and waiting and suddenly she has done it; now things are happening, as she likes things to …show more content…
Firstly her writing evidently brought many people together in deep discussion. It was unheard of that such admiration would evolve into a secret society. Even an uneducated man from low rank gets to dwell with a lieutenant and converse their admiration for ‘Jane’. Even Kipling, an advocate enthusiast of Austen’s wrote to a friend ‘the more I read the more I admire and respect and do reverence… When she looks straight at a man or a woman she is greater than those who were alive with her - by a whole head… (Pinney)’. The intriguing maternal issue being that Kipling’s son John began his military preparation and sadly seven months later was posted ‘missing’, but the only consoling factor that could get them through their tough time of loss was by Mr. Kipling reading aloud. And where there is death there is life. It pays to have been induced in Austen’s studies. The power of knowledge happens to save Humberstall’s life. As he waited to me admitted to the already over crowded hospital he was refused, however once he quoted Austen’s novel he soon found a fellow janeite who carefully took him into her protective
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Jane Austen is one of the most influential novelists of British literature, which was largely because she was creating strong, unusual female characters during this period, and also because of her expertise of satire, form and irony. Conversely, her work stands out because of her sharp, satirical depiction of the late 18th century English society. Our fascination with Austen not only stops with her work, but with the woman herself. Austen was the daughter of a Hampshire clergyman, with eight siblings; she grew up in a happy close-knit family. She began writing at a young age, and family members would often circulate …show more content…
Although that may have been the case eighteenth century English society did not value an educated woman, nor did it see any reason for woman attending college unless for domestic and religious practices. It was not view necessary for woman to possess the knowledge of Greek or Latin. Austen lived in a society where woman were expected to be accomplished yet, not well educated. In a sense woman did not possess much authority and a woman’s social standing came from marriage. Ultimately, we could insinuate that women were objectified, seen as property and tools for childbirth. Hence, the maternal aspect, which surrounded Austen, whether it is her own family with seven siblings, or the societal pressures, placed upon woman at the time. However, if we take the context of the novel and the style it is constructed we could suggest a sense of maternal. For instance in Virginia Wolfe’s Jane Austen, she suggests that like other writers, she had to create the atmosphere in which her own peculiar genius could bear fruit. Wolfe suggests that Austen fumbles, she keeps us waiting and waiting and suddenly she has done it; now things are happening, as she likes things to …show more content…
Firstly her writing evidently brought many people together in deep discussion. It was unheard of that such admiration would evolve into a secret society. Even an uneducated man from low rank gets to dwell with a lieutenant and converse their admiration for ‘Jane’. Even Kipling, an advocate enthusiast of Austen’s wrote to a friend ‘the more I read the more I admire and respect and do reverence… When she looks straight at a man or a woman she is greater than those who were alive with her - by a whole head… (Pinney)’. The intriguing maternal issue being that Kipling’s son John began his military preparation and sadly seven months later was posted ‘missing’, but the only consoling factor that could get them through their tough time of loss was by Mr. Kipling reading aloud. And where there is death there is life. It pays to have been induced in Austen’s studies. The power of knowledge happens to save Humberstall’s life. As he waited to me admitted to the already over crowded hospital he was refused, however once he quoted Austen’s novel he soon found a fellow janeite who carefully took him into her protective