简·奥斯汀[1]（1775年12月16日～1817年7月18日）英国女小说家。生于乡村小镇斯蒂文顿，父亲是当地教区牧师。奥斯汀没有上过正规学校，但受到较好的家庭教育，主要教材就是父亲的文学藏书。奥斯汀一家爱读流行小说，多半是庸俗的消遣品。她少女时期的习作就是对这类流行小说的滑稽模仿，这样就形成了她作品中嘲讽的基调。她20岁左右开始写作，共发表了6部长篇小说。1811年出版的
《理智与情感》是她的处女作，随后又接连发表了
《傲慢与偏见》（1813）、《曼斯菲尔德花园》（1814）和
《爱玛》（也译
《艾玛》）（1815）。
《诺桑觉寺》（又名《诺桑觉修道院》）和《劝导》（1818）是在她去世后第二年发表的，并署上了作者真名。 奥斯汀终身未婚，家道小康。由于居住在乡村小镇，接触到的是中小地主、牧师等人物以及他们恬静、舒适的生活环境，因此她的作品里没有重大的社会矛盾。她以女性特有的细致入微的观察力，真实地描绘了她周围世界的小天地，尤其是绅士淑女间的婚姻和爱情风波。她的作品格调轻松诙谐，富有喜剧性冲突，深受读者欢迎。 从18世纪末到19世纪初，“感伤小说”和“哥特小说”充斥英国文坛，而奥斯汀的小说破旧立新，一反常规地展现了当时尚未受到资本主义工业革命冲击的英国乡村中产阶级的日常生活和田园风光。她的作品往往通过喜剧性的场面嘲讽人们的愚蠢、自私、势利和盲目自信等可鄙可笑的弱点。奥斯丁的小说出现在19世纪初叶，一扫风行一时的假浪漫主义潮流，继承和发展了英国18世纪优秀的现实主义传统，为19世纪现实主义小说的高潮做了准备。虽然其作品反映的广度和深度有限，但她的作品如“两寸牙雕”，从一个小窗口中窥视到整个社会形态和人情世故，对改变当时小说创作中的风气起了好的作用，在英国小说的发展史上有承上启下的意义，被誉为地位“可与莎士比亚平起平坐”的作家。 创作背景 《傲慢与偏见》是简·奥斯汀最早完成的作品，她在1796年开始动笔，取名为
《最初的印象》，1797年8月完成。她父亲看后很感动，特意拿给汤玛·卡士德尔，请他出版，但对方一口回绝，使得他们十分失望。后来，她重写了《最初的印象》 并改名为“傲慢与偏见”于1813年1月出版。 Jane Austen [1] (1775 December 16-1817 July 18) British female novelist. In a small country town, father is the local research the vicar. Austin, did not have the normal school, but are good education, family's literature teaching is books. Austin, a love to read novels, mostly vulgar pastime. Her teenage assignments for this kind of popular novels is humorous imitation, thus forming a sarcastic tone in her works. She started writing about the age of 20, published six novels. 1811 published "sense and sensibility" is her first, then have published "pride and prejudice" (1813), "Mansfield garden (1814) and Emma (" Emma) (1815). The SangJiao temple "(the") and the SangJiao monastery persuasion (in) is francois after her death, and the author's on. Austin, brings life-long unmarried. By living in a small country town, access to the small landlords, the priest is characters such as well as their quiet and comfortable living environment, so she works without major social contradictions. With her female's unique meticulous observation, a truthful picture of the world around her small, especially among ladies of marriage and love. Her work style, rich comedy comic readers with conflict,. From the late eighteenth to well into the nineteenth century, "the sentiment novel" and "the gothic novel" English literature, while austen iconoclastic show, a land that has deregulation by capitalist industrial revolution of the British countryside middle-class impact of daily life and pastoral scenery. She works by comedy scene at people's stupid, selfish and snobbish and blind confidence as ridiculous weakness. Contemptible Austin's novel appeared in the early 19th century, a false romantic classic restaurant-favored, inheriting and developing trend of the 18th century Britain traditional realism in the 19th century, is the climax of the realistic novel prepared. Although the works reflect the breadth and depth of the limited, but she works such as "two inches YaDiao", from a small window at the whole society to form and then to change the world, the creation of novels, plays a good atmosphere in the history of the English novel, a structure called the significance, and Shakespeare equal status ", "the writers.Background "pride and prejudice" is the earliest Jane Austen, she began to write in seventeen years, named for the first impression, completed August 1797. After her father look very touched, especially to ShangMa · card and del, please him, but no, makes them very disappointed. Later, she rewrote the initial impression"And renamed "pride and prejudice" published in January in 1813.