Do you like reading Jane Austen books?
I enjoyed some of her major books: Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. How about you?
I've heard of her but I've never actually read any of her books. What is Pride and Prejudice about?
It's basically a romantic comedy about marriage and education and money. It was pretty witty.
That sounds like a good book. Have they adapted it into a movie?
Yeah, they made a movie in 2005 starring Keira Knightley. I'm not a huge Knightley fan, but it was actually really good.
I'll have to check that out. Do you remember the name of it?
It was just called Pride & Prejudice. Directed by Joe Wright, the same guy who made that new movie The Darkest Hour.
Oh okay, I like his work.
irony, along with her realism, humour, and social commentary, have long earned her acclaim among critics, scholars, and popular audiences alike.
With the publications 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 another, eventually
, a brother of Edward Austen's wife Elizabeth, in 1805, but biographer Claire Tomalin dismisses this claim.
Jane Austen was primarily educated at home by her father and older brothers and through her own reading. Her apprenticeship as a writer lasted from her teenage years until she was about thirty-five years old. During this period, she wrote three major novels and began a fourth. From 1811 until 1815, with the release of "Sense and Sensibility" (1811), "Pride and Prejudice" (1813