十八世纪末十九世纪初英国文学史上一位杰出的女作家就是简·奥斯丁(1775-1817)，她创作了举世公认的英国第一批现实主义小说。

• This thesis is an attempt at a more thorough analysis of Jane Austen (1775-1817), as a writer and a woman, and her six completed novels: Sense and sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Northanger A bbey (1818) and Persuasion (1818).