Jane Yolen

Authors often draw inspiration from the environment that they live in and Jane Austen is no different. Her novel, Pride and Prejudice, is reflective of ordinary life in the early nineteenth century, with a special emphasis on the life of the average country woman in England. Jane Austen explores and exemplifies the intricate nuances of society and its standards on its inhabitants, particularly through the characterizations of the plethora of characters appearing in Miss Elizabeth Bennet’s—the…

One keeps turning to the point that Woolf is a realist; the new method is to represent the real world as it is perceived in a culture which is a state of flux following the Great War. Woolf’s motive in writing this novel wasn’t just to present to us the confined life of a high-society housewife, or to explore homosexuality or feminism, but to take the reader on a psychological journey that takes postmodernism and…

1 Introduction “No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine”. These are the words Jane Austen chose to introduce the protagonist of her novel “Northanger Abbey” and they seem to give the impression of Catherine being “desperately naive, dangerously unsophisticated, and frequently slow to comprehend“(Kindred 196) right from the start. This impression seems to be confirmed as soon as the reader notices Catherine’s disability of…

Kamala Markandaya occupies a prominent place among Indian English novelists. She won international fame and recognition with a publication offer very first novel, Nectar in a sieve in 1954. When she started writing novels, the themes hunger and degradation, human relationships, east – west encounter had already been dealt with by a number of Indian/English novelists. But Kamala Markandaya provides variety and vividness to these themes. In her all the novels these themes are reflected in the life…

Suffragette," detailing the push for ladies' suffrage in the United Kingdom in 1911-13, has both of these issues, despite the fact that it experiences increasingly the first. Coordinated by Sarah Gavron and composed by Abi Morgan, "Suffragette" makes it look like since one (Fictional) lady (Carey Mulligan) affirmed about her hardships to future Secretary of State for War Lloyd George, the suffrage development encountered a profundity charge of duty. In actuality, the development was an irritable…

“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte is a story about a youthful orphan, named Jane Eyre, who was living an awful life with her aunt and cousins, the Reeds. Jane’s character developed throughout the novel. Bronte acquired the buildup in her characters by the multiple locations in the novel, since the settings mostly reflects the human’s emotions. The different locations Jane encountered had a huge impact on her character and the mood throughout the story. The novel started at Gateshead Hall, where…

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” I know in some ways this sounds corny, but this is true in Pride and Prejudice; Jane Austen’s legendary literary work. Austen began to write while she was in her teens and only her family knew of her authorship of her novels during her life. During her time, women didn’t have much ways for self-improvement, and the only way to obtain this was to marry young men with lots of…

Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls is a series of novels by Meg Cabot the New York Times bestselling author that is best known for writing over 80 novels in the children's, young adult, and adult genres. Meg was born in Bloomington, Indiana but lived in Carmel, California and Grenoble in France before she moved to New York after getting her fine arts bachelors degree from Indiana University. She worked fro a decade at the New York University where she was assistant residence hall director an…

Mount Pleasant “Mount Pleasant” is a story about the little girl Elizabeth, who moves to a new house with her fami-ly consisting of Elizabeth, her sister Lena, their parents and “Big Alec”. Mary-Louise Buxton wrote the short story 2005. Elizabeth, who thinks the house is haunted, tells the story. It is hinted that she and her sister is being abused, but it is never told directly. The story is told through the eyes of a child and therefor the main theme is “life as a child”. The story has a…

Many psychoanalytic theories may be applied to Charlotte Bronte’s, Jane Eyre. Evidence of psychology cannot only be found in Bronte’s characters, and throughout her entire novel. Psychology can be applicable to Jane Eyre, through Bronte’s childhood, and also using psychoanalytic theories surrounding literature. Charlotte Bronte wrote in a way that reflected her own life. She was not normally healthy as a child which heavily influenced her writing. Tragedy was a large part of Bronte’s life,…