Mr. Rushworth Jane Austen was born in December 1775 and died in July 1817. She was a British novelist who wrote six novels: "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Persuasion", and "Northanger Abbey". Her novels are about romance within the gentry. "Mansfield Park" was written between 1811 and 1813 and was published in 1814. The novel was published in a second edition in 1816. The novel is about a young woman, Fanny Price, and her life living with her relatives, the Bertrams. It catalogs the events that occur there and Fanny's insights into the characters and events. Little is
Persuasion (novel) the power of books over women; namely were women more susceptible to the power of reading than men, and if so, was reading a benign or malign influence on women? Austen had first taken up this question in "Northanger Abbey" where reading Gothic books has comic effects on Catherine Morland, but also gives a more acute sense of reality and to understand people. Pinch wrote that Austen returned to this theme of the power of books on women in "Persuasion", but in a more mature and probing manner, where as the novel is concerned with "... what it feels like