Period Ⅰ 单元预习课 导读·话题美文预学·语言知识感悟·教材原文Unit 5 Enjoying novels 著名小说家简·奥斯汀是英国女作家,她的作品主要关注乡绅家庭女性的婚姻和生活
对于她你了解多少
Jane Austen, a famous English writer, was born at Stevention, Hampshire, on December 16,1775,and died on July 18,1817
She began writing early in life, although the prejudices of her times forced her to have her books published anonymously(匿名地). But Jane Austen is perhaps the best known and best loved of Bath's many famous local people and visitors
She paid two long visits here during the last five years of the eighteenth century and from 1801 to 1806, Bath was her home
Her deep knowledge of the city is fully seen in two of her novels,Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, which are largely set in Bath
The city is still very much as Jane Austen knew it, keeping in its streets and public