Jane Austen (December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817) was an English novelist. Born in the rural town of Stevington, her father was a parish priest. Austen did not attend formal school, but received a good family education, and her main teaching material was her father's literary collection. The Austen family loved to read popular novels, mostly vulgar pastimes. Her teenage studies were parodies of such popular novels, which formed the sarcastic tone of her work. She began writing around the age of 20 and published a total of six novels. Sense and Sensibility, published in 1811, was her first 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 year after her death, with the author's real name signed.

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 created a new one, unconventionally showing the daily life and pastoral scenery of the English rural middle class at that time, which had not yet been affected by the capitalist industrial revolution. Her works often mocked the despicable weaknesses of people's stupidity, selfishness, snobbery and blind confidence through comic scenes. Austen's novels appeared in the early 19th century, sweeping away the popular trend of fake romanticism, inheriting and developing the excellent realist tradition of the 18th century in England, and preparing for the climax of 19th century realist fiction. Although the breadth and depth of her works are limited, her works, such as "two-inch tooth carving", peek into the entire social form and human sophistication from a small window, which played a good role in changing the vulgar atmosphere in the creation of novels at that time. It has a significance in the development history of British novels, and is known as a writer whose status is "equal to Shakespeare".

Comments: Austin's works are all masterpieces, but it's a pity that he died young and unmarried.