Jane Austen
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4.5
- proper noun
- /dʒeɪn ˈɔːstɪn/
- (Though Homer, Dante, and Jane Austen were not Democrats, they were presumed to speak to Democrats.
- Jane Austen's novels
- Jane Austen's Emma
- Jane Austen's classic
Examples
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Jane Austen is celebrated for her keen observations of society in novels like Jane Austen.
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I choose Emma for the slow pleasure of Jane Austen's prose.
Academic text (1996) -
One of the great novelists in the English language, Jane Austen was born in 1775 in a small English village.
Fiction book (1999) -
A sparkling film based on Jane Austen's novel about love and money will open in theatres this month.
Fiction book (1999) -
In the article cited below, for example, Iser begins his discussion of the activation of the reader not with Cervantes or Unamuno but with Jane Austen.
Academic text (2001) -
However, by the late 1990s, his subject matter had expanded to include aliens and astronauts, along with elaborate spoofs of classic European high culture, from Hogarth and Fragonard to Jane Austen.
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Many readers appreciate the wit and humor found in Jane Austen's stories about daily life in early 19th-century England.
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In her novel Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen explores the challenges faced by sisters navigating love and financial instability.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Jane + Austen
This is a proper name referring to a specific person; the constituent tokens 'Jane' and 'Austen' are personal-name elements that do not convey the biographical sense 'English novelist.' Knowing the parts therefore does not allow a B1 learner to infer the MWE's meaning without prior exposure or cultural knowledge.
Etymology
Jane Austen was an English writer from the late 1700s who wrote short novels about family life, country houses and polite parties. Her books use clever, gentle humor to show how people behave in society, so the name often brings to mind 'smart, polite stories about manners and family'.