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Jane Austen Audio Books - Jane Austen can be counted among the most influential woman authors in the English literature. Her books about the emancipation of women, their needs and the many obstacles they faced in time Jane Austen lived have changed the view and attitude of many a woman then and even now. Jane Austen's book are still very up-to-date and can be read with only minimal interpretation to still (!) reflect the situation of many women in this world

That the books of Jane Austen are now also available as downloadable audio books is great, it makes them accessible to even more people:

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Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Audio Book 

Jane Austen about finding a man and husband

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

This is the opening phrase of this most likely best known book by Jane Austen.

Of all Jane Austin's books Pride and Prejudice has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence the story of Elizabeth and Darcy delights its most familiar readers as thoroughly as it does those who encounter it for the first time.

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Jane Austen Collection - Books and DVD 

Jane Austen Collection (Sense & Sensibility / Emma / Persuasion / Mansfield Park / Pride & Prejudice / Northanger Abbey)

Release Date: 08/24/2004

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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Wordsworth Library Collection)

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Jane Austen in Manhattan - The Merchant Ivory Collection

Release Date: 09/21/2004

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In the Garden with Jane Austen – Book Review
By Angela Youngman Jul 10, 2009, 14:52 GMT Gardens played a big part in Jane Austen's life. Not surprisingly, they play a major role in all six of her ...
What are you reading? for July 12
Synopsis: Jane Austen's ?Pride & Prejudice? from Mr. Darcy's point of view, also filling in his activities during the times we don't see him in Austen's ...
Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict
This is the amusing and heart rendering follow up, Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler, Jane wakes up one morning with a massive ...
Listen while you knit
Curl up in your chair with your knitting and listen to Jane Austen inspired books such as Mr. Darcy's Diary, Austenland, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict ...

How Important was Jane austen for Womens Lib? 

With her books Jane Austen has opened the eyes of many women (and men) about the situation women faced and what should be done about it. Her literature has distincly influenced the womens lib movement (also called feminism)!

Was Jane Austen Really That Important for the Emancipation of Women?

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Jane Austen Biography 

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Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose realism, biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech, burlesque, and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature.Southam, "Criticism, 1870-1940", The Jane Austen Companion, 102.

Austen lived her entire life as part of a small and close-knit family located on the lower fringes of English gentry.Lascelles, 2; for detail on "lower fringes", see Collins, ix-x. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to Austen's development as a professional writer.Lascelles, 4-5; MacDonagh, 110-28; Honan, 79, 183-85; Tomalin, 66-68. Austen's artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years until she was about thirty-five years old. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she tried and then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth.

From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.

Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the eighteenth century and are part of the transition to nineteenth-century realism.Litz, 3-14; Grundy, "Jane Austen and Literary Traditions", The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, 192-93; Waldron, "Critical Responses, Early", Jane Austen in Context, p. 83, 89-90; Duffy, "Criticism, 1814-1870", The Jane Austen Companion, 93-94. Austen's plots, though fundamentally comic,Litz, 142. highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security.MacDonagh, 66-75; Collins, 160-161. Like those of Samuel Johnson, one of the strongest influences on her writing, her works are concerned with moral issues.Honan, 124-27; Trott, "Critical Responses, 1830-1970", Jane Austen in Context, 92.

During Austen's lifetime, because she chose to publish anonymously, her works brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews. Through the mid-nineteenth century, her novels were admired only by members of the literary elite. However, the publication of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1869 introduced her to a wider public as an appealing personality and kindled popular interest in her works. By the 1940s, Austen was widely accepted in academia as a "great English writer". The second half of the twentieth century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship, which explored many aspects of her novels: artistic, ideological, and historical. In popular culture, a Janeite fan culture has developed, centred on Austen's life, her works, and the various film and television adaptations of them.

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Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors and would be wonderful to listen to on a long cross-country drive.

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Jane Austen Costume 

The time in which Jane Austen lived was a time when women that were financially well off looked glamorous and very elegent. That the reason taht to this day, Jane Austen costumes are very popular:

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