Austen

[ aw-stuhn ]

noun

1. Jane, 1775–1817, English novelist.

Austen

/ ˈɔː-; ˈɒstɪn /

noun

1. AustenJane17751817FEnglishWRITING: novelist Jane. 1775–1817, English novelist, noted particularly for the insight and delicate irony of her portrayal of middle-class families. Her completed novels are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Northanger Abbey (1818), and Persuasion (1818)

Example Sentences

There are more than a few good and even great film adaptations of Austen’s books available to stream now.

From Time

Being an Austen romance, however, interpersonal and family conflict is resolved and the characters end up in the “perfect happiness” of marriage.

From Vox

The set up is similar to Chutes and Ladders—each player is in search of their perfect match, which they will find by spinning a wheel, answering Austen trivia questions and then going up the social ladder or down the ropes of scandal.

From Time

Honestly, it’s a very underrated Austen and features a relatable heroine in Anne Elliot.

From Washington Post

The displays note that Austen and her family, by drinking tea, eating foods with sugar and wearing clothing made of cotton, enjoyed products of the Atlantic slave trade.

From Washington Blade

Austen is perfectly aware that many books called novels do not display “the greatest powers of the mind.”

From The Daily Beast

Austen does no better than the lexicographers at delineating a set that comprises all but only novels.

From The Daily Beast

In Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen defends the novel against critics who dismiss it as frivolous and feminine.

From The Daily Beast

Austen, Eliot, and James sometimes complemented their essential seriousness with humorous minor characters and subplots.

From The Daily Beast

He will likely not have a job, or marry, or get to read Jane Austen.

From The Daily Beast

In accordance with patriotic spirit obliterating party animosity, Son Austen promptly accepted invitation.

From Project Gutenberg

Found, among other things, that he had lived two years in Italy when he was a youth, and that he admires Miss Austen.

From Project Gutenberg

They heard the demand for all sorts of reforms, but they felt that Mr. Austen Chamberlain was equal to the occasion.

From Project Gutenberg

The charm of Miss Austen's novels is their acknowledged fidelity of portraiture of the society with which they deal.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Austen Chamberlain demanded a judicial inquiry into the "Plot," but was beaten by eighty votes in a House of 608 members.

From Project Gutenberg