Though Jane Austen herself has been gone from this world for many, many years, her words still live on in her books, now named as classics. The lives of characters such as Eliza and Jane Bennet, Mr. Darcy, Emma Woodhouse, Elinor Dashwood and more will continue to inspire generations to come with their unique outlooks on life and the ways that each and every one of these characters seems to literally leap off the page and into our minds, our hearts, and our lives.
Each time that you open a Jane Austen novel it is difficult to believe that you are not somehow living in the midst of the 1700's in England. A time when things were simpler, when outspoken women were considered an oddity and an era when chivalry was most certainly not dead. The world seemed a much more intriguing place when one could spend the days roaming the countryside and falling in love, getting into scrapes and still coming out at the top of the heap.
Some of the best books ever written were written during this time. Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma are some of the most creative stories ever written and it was all done during an era when women were not believed capable of writing a novel or truly accomplishing tasks of any kind unless it were housework or minding the children. Still, Jane Austen managed to break the mold, much as her characters are wont to do, and not only wrote several books, but was able to publish them as well. If ever anyone is in search of a good book, the name Jane Austen is the first they should hear.
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