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Austen

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Aus·ten  (ôstn), Jane 1775-1817.
British writer who is noted for her penetrating observation of middle-class manners and morality and her irony, wit, and meticulous style. Her novels include Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816).
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Noun1.AustenAusten - English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle-class families (1775-1817)
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Lady Austen, a widow, took a house near Cowper and Mrs.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
You cannot be at perfect ease with a friend who does not joke, and I suppose this is what deprived me of a final satisfaction in the company of Anthony Trollope, who jokes heavily or not at all, and whom I should otherwise make bold to declare the greatest of English novelists; as it is, I must put before him Jane Austen, whose books, late in life, have been a youthful rapture with me.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
A chef d'oeuvre of that kind of quiet evolution of character through circumstance, introduced into English literature by Miss Austen, and carried to perfection in France by George Sand (who is more to the point, because, like Mrs.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
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