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1、The Mysterious Miss Austen谜一样的奥斯汀关键字：The,Mysterious,Miss,Austen,谜一样,一样,奥斯汀,奥斯,奥斯汀 The Mysterious Miss Austen谜一样的奥斯汀本文为Word文档，感谢你的关注！ .奥斯汀，一位来自英国汉普郡小村庄的、未接受多少学校教育的普通女子，是如何写出英语文学中最受读者喜爱的六部经典小说的呢？这至今是一个谜。简.奥斯汀将自己的创作比作“方寸大小的象牙微雕”，描写的通常是“乡间村庄的三四户人家”，然而她却具有将寻常琐事和普通人物描写得栩栩如生的天赋，被评论家们称为能与莎士比亚等文学巨匠齐名的伟大语言艺术家
2、。在她逝世两百周年之际，让我们再次走近她，了解谜一样的奥斯汀。 For the past two centuries， historians and literary scholars have attempted to solve the mystery that is Jane Austens life. How did a woman from a small village in Hampshire come to write six of the most beloved novels in the English language？ Their search for answers
3、 has been complicated by the fact that Austen lived a quiet life. Scholars have used Austens letters， along with family diaries， correspondence by friends and family， and county records to reconstruct much of Austens life. When everything is assembled， it reveals a woman at the mercy of1） her family
4、s finances for her very existence， yet nurtured and supported by her relatives when they recognized an uncommon talent in their midst. The Surety of Steventon Austen was born on December 16， 1775， which was a month later than her parents， George and Cassandra， reckoned she should arrive. With six ot
5、her childrenJames， George， Edward， Henry， Cassandra， and Francisthe Austens might have been more adept at counting the weeks. They were happy for the arrival of another daughter. Another brother， Charles， followed four years later， marking an end to the familys expansion. The Austens were continuall
6、y strapped2） for money， even though the parsonage3） at Steventon， a small village in Hampshire， provided a living. Three years before Janes birth， the Austens opened a school for boys as a way to earn extra income. From an early age， Austens world was full of boyish antics4）， bawdy5） humor， and outd
7、oor exploration. Leaving that rough-and-tumble6） world behind， seven-year-old Jane was sent， along with her sister Cassandra， to a girls school in Oxford. The Austen girls stayed only a year， returning home after both became ill from typhoid7）. Jane and Cassandra passed a year at Steventon before be
8、ing enrolled in Mrs. La Tournelles Ladies Boarding School in Reading， where they again stayed only a year. Austens departure from Mrs. La Tournelles School put an end to her formal education at age ten. However， Austen was far from “unlearned”indeed， it would have been difficult for her to escape ge
9、tting an education. George Austen kept a sizable libraryone bookcase reportedly covered sixty-four square feet of wallwhich his children were encouraged to explore. There were ongoing science experiments and constant engagement with the natural world. Dinner table conversations， which included Georg
10、es pupils， ran on philosophy， literature， and science， along with dashes8） of racing， horses， and neighborhood gossip. When young Jane showed a spark of talent for writing， her father encouraged his budding author， buying her journals and writing paper， both expensive commodities. Austen wasnt afrai
11、d to experiment， trying her hand at playwriting， as well as a novel with a morally suspect9） heroine. When she was nineteen， Austen began working on “Elinor and Marianne，” the precursor10） to Sense and Sensibility， which chronicles how the Dashwood11） sisters reconciled their hearts to the brutal re
12、alities of the marriage market for women without means12）. Austen understood their predicament well， as neither she nor Cassandra had a dowry13）， because of their fathers ongoing financial problems. Austen received a lesson in the cruel incompatibility of love and money when she fell hard for Tom Le
13、froy， a twenty-year-old Irishman. She met the “very gentlemanlike， good-looking， pleasant young man” during the Christmas season of 17951796. Lefroy fell for Austen as well， but the match was impossible. As the oldest son of a retired soldier of limited means， he was expected to make a good marriage
14、 in order to provide for his five sisters. Austen began “First Impressions，” which would become Pride and Prejudice， in the fall of 1796， working on it for the next year. She had already begun exploring the implications of a woman professing14） her feelingsor keeping them closely guardedin “Elinor a
15、nd Marianne.” That theme again appeared in “First Impressions.” Betwixt and Between15） Between 1795 and 1799， Austen wrote early versions of Sense and Sensibility， Pride and Prejudice， and Northanger Abbey. Its an extraordinary period of productivity， particularly given that she was still in her ear
16、ly twenties. That makes the dearth16） of writing over the next decade a bit of a puzzle. The letters that survive dont hint at writers block or a lack of interest in writing. Instead， they reveal a life in a constant state of upheaval17）. In December 1802， Austen received an unexpected marriage proposal. Her friends Alethea and Catherine Bigg decided to play matchmaker between A
