Summary of Major Works

Jane Austen was an author that did not receive much success during her lifetime and only published few novels. Mansfield Park was written in 1811, and was her third novel. This novel is the most complicated and tackles issues such as education of children, the differences between appearances and reality. Lovers’ Vow was a play that was directly related to Mansfield Park. Pride and Prejudice one of the most famous was written in 1796, and then rewritten in 1811-1812. This book deals with prejudice and judgment from first encounters, and how judgments morph with more interaction. Emma was written in 1814-1815, and was dedicated to his royal highness of England. Emma tackles a young woman’s maturity and adulthood. This novels shows the extensive trouble that she falls into and is seen to engulf many issues that she once faced. Persuasion was written in 1815, while she was suffering from illness, she worked on it until she died in 1817, and her brother Henry Austen published the book. Persuasion is a novel of second chances, expectations of society, and constancy of love. Other novels and essays included Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Juvenilia (a combination of many essays).