Austen, Jane

Cultural  

1. A British author of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; her best-known works are the novels Pride and Prejudice and Emma. Austen is particularly famous for her witty irony and perceptive comments about people and their social relationships.

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Example Sentences

George Austen, Jane’s father, looms large in the exhibition.

From The Guardian

The ring passed first to the author's sister Cassandra, who then gave it to her sister-in-law Eleanor Austen on her engagement to the Reverend Henry Thomas Austen, Jane and Cassandra's brother.

From BBC

The book will sit along side the works of Aristotle, Austen Jane and Aristophanes, published under the same imprint.

From BBC

The ring first passed from Austen to her sister, Cassandra, who later gave it to her future sister-in-law Eleanor Jackson after Eleanor’s engagement to Henry Thomas Austen, Jane and Cassandra’s brother.

From New York Times

Austen, Jane, her life and personality, 265-267; opinions of Walter Scott, Macaulay, and Miss Mitford concerning, 266, 267; her Pride and Prejudice, 268; Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, 268, 269; her qualities, 270, 271; burial-place, 270.

From Project Gutenberg