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Observing the observer: Spirited bio looks at how Jane Austen's life influenced her novels.(The Dallas Morning News)
From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 20020130
Author:Crosson, Linda
Two centuries ago, Jane Austen wrote novels about love, social intercourse and class consciousness among the sort of people who were her English village neighbors. The puzzle has always been how she did it with such penetrating insight and uncommon wisdom (humor, too); she had little formal schooling, never went far from home and didn't marry.
She was born the year that American colonists began the War of Independence, and died, at age 41, in 1817. Her father was a clergyman and ran a boys' boarding school in the Austen home. She was writing ``Pride and Prejudice'' at age 21. ...
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