《Who Was Jane Austen?》- Getting to Know the Literary Legend

Readers in the 1800s felt a connection to the people in her books. And people today still feel as if they know her characters personally. She created books about regular people and their everyday struggles and triumphs. She proved that ordinary characters and the drama of their daily lives could sometimes make the most interesting stories. Jane Austen accomplished what she set out to do: She achieved success as a published author in a time when it was very uncommon for women to even dream of having careers. Although she was not famous during her lifetime, her novels have rarely been out of print since then.