Jane Austen is one of the most influential and best-loved novelists in
English literature. Austen's genius was her cast of characters--so
timeless and real that readers today recognize them in their own
families and neighborhoods. Her book's universal themes--love and hate,
hope and disappointment, pride and prejudice, sense and
sensibility--still tug at heartstrings today in cultures spanning the
globe.
Austen wrote about daily life in England as she knew it, growing up a
clergyman's daughter among the upper class of landowners, providing
readers with a window into the soul of a lively, imaginative, and
industrious woman in an age when most women were often obscured. Jane
Austen for Kids includes a time line, resources for further study,
places to visit, and 21 enriching activities.