208 years ago today, July 28, 1817 (June 15, 1817 in the lunar calendar), British novelist Jane Austen passed away. Jane Austen (December 16, 1775-July 18, 1817) was a British female novelist. Born in the rural town of Steventon, his father was the local parish priest. Austin did not go to formal school, but received a good family education. The main teaching material was his father's literary library. The Austen family loves to read popular novels, most of which are vulgar pastimes. Her teenage writings were parodies of such popular novels, which formed the tone of ridicule in her work. She started writing around the age of 20 and published 6 novels in total. Reason and Sensibility, published in 1811, was her debut novel, followed by Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Gardens (1814) and Emma (1815). "Northanger Abbey"(also known as "Northanger Abbey") and "Persuasion"(1818) were published the second year after her death and signed with the author's real name. Austin was unmarried all his life and lived a well-off family. Because she lived in a rural town and was exposed to small and medium-sized landlords, priests and other characters and their quiet and comfortable living environment, there were no major social conflicts in her works. With her unique meticulous observation of women, she truly depicts the small world around her, especially the marriage and love turmoil between gentlemen and ladies. Her works are light and witty in style, full of comic conflicts, and are very popular among readers. From the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century, vulgar and boring "sentimental novels" and "Gothic novels" flooded the British literary world, while Austen's novels broke the old and set up a new one, showing the daily life and idyllic scenery of the English rural middle class before the impact of the capitalist industrial revolution. Her works often ridicule people's contemptible weaknesses such as stupidity, selfishness, snobbery and blind self-confidence through comic scenes. Austen's novels appeared at the beginning of the 19th century, sweeping away the popular trend of pseudo-romanticism, inheriting and developing the excellent realism tradition of the 18th century in England, and preparing for the climax of realism novels in the 19th century. Although the breadth and depth of her works are limited, her works are like "two-inch tooth carvings", which peeped into the entire social form and worldly feelings from a small window, and played a good role in changing the vulgar atmosphere in novel creation at that time. In the history of the development of British novels, it has a connecting significance and is known as a writer with a status "equal to Shakespeare." Comments: Austen's works are all famous works, but it's a pity that he died young and was unmarried.