![]() Henry helped Jane publish her novels, and sought to it that Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published after her death, so they were presumed to be very close. Her brother Henry Austen joined the Oxfordshire Militia in 1793, rising to lieutenant before resigning in 1801. This meant that seeing Militia in the countryside would have been a common sight. Jane was alive at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, although she does not mention them in her novels. Her family were very supportive of her writing so I imagine they would have found Mr Collins character funny, rather than offensive, as he is the comic relief. I wonder what her clergymen relations thought of this character. This meant that Jane had good knowledge of the clergy in writing her character of Mr Collins. Jane's father and two of her brothers, James and Henry (eventually), were clergymen. Steventon did not have many amenities but other villages nearby may have assisted in Jane's picture of Meryton and Longbourn. Jane grew up in Steventon, a small village in Hampshire and so was well knowledged in the ways of country and village life. Mr Bennet is part of the landed gentry making him a gentleman. Jane was herself a gentleman's daughter as her father was a clergyman, and the Bennet sisters are also daughters of a gentleman. ![]() Jane would speak her mind in her letters, much as Elizabeth speaks hers. ![]() I, like many, often see parts of myself in Elizabeth Bennet, and many people believe that she is a respresentative of Jane Austen herself. ![]()
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