Georgian society in Jane Austen's novels as it started in 1760, just before her parents married in 1764, and ended up in 1820, after the death of Austen in 1817 and the posthumous publication of her two novels, "Persuasion" and "Northanger Abbey" in 1818. It is through her cousin Eliza de Feuillide, married to a French aristocrat, that Jane Austen first heard of the French Revolution and of its violence. Eliza stayed in England in 1786 and 1787, and made several trips between France and England from 1788 to 1792. In January 1791, Eliza was in Margate, and was hoping that her husband, who had just
Styles and themes of Jane Austen "Mansfield Park" and "Persuasion" are the novels most often cited as examples of Austen's growing religiosity. For example, "Persuasion" "is subtly different from the laxer, more permissive social atmosphere of the three novels Jane Austen began before 1800." and contains more frequent references to Providence. In "Mansfield Park", Fanny stands for spirituality and proper morality. It is she who most clearly characterizes Henry Crawford's affair with Maria in religious terms, in the language of sin, guilt and punishment. She is portrayed as an earnest, strict and struggling Christian, not perfect but trying hard. Since the rise of feminist literary criticism