Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English novelist best known for her six major works, which analyse, critique, and comment on the British aristocracy around the end of the 18th century. Austen's stories frequently address women's reliance on marriage in order to achieve social status and financial security. Her works are part of the shift to 19th-century literary realism and critique the novels of sensibility from the second half of the 18th century. [2][b] Critics and academics have praised her use of stinging irony, as well as her realism and social critique.