As a classicist of climactic prose, Jane Austen has acquired a firm place in English literature. Austen's first novel was not published until she was thirty-five, yet she wrote three volumes of juvenilia before she was eighteen (Jane Austen). "His career is generally divided into an early and a later period, the former including Young, as well as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Northanger Abbey (1818), the latter including Emma ( 1816), Mansfield Park (1814) and Persuasion (1818). They are separated by a certain mellowing of tone in her later works. Although Austen's literary art is exceptional, the facts of her biography, at first glance, have not fascinated readers and scholars, and today there is much interest in her life as appetizing as the interest in her works. "Dating back to her time, when Austen's first four novels were published anonymously, there are still sources of information about her life: some of her letters (those that her sister Cassandra did not destroy after her death) and A Memoir of Jane Austen, written by her nephew JE Austen-Leigh in 1869. (PBS). These sources reveal that Jane Austen portrayed the reserved life of an unmarried clergyman's daughter. He found primary reinforcement for his art within the family circle and a basis for his novels in his personal and family history. Jane Austen based her character's relationships with her siblings on her bond with her sister Casandra, with whom she was a thief. When Jane and her sister were separated, Jane wrote to her often; this is reflected throughout... middle of the card......ninheritance as Mr. Collins would be the next male in line to inherit Mr. Bennet's fortune. If the daughters did not marry, they would be left with a morsel and would be condemned to the life of spinsters. In the late 1700s and early 1800s it would have been frowned upon for a woman not to marry. A marriage between one of the daughters and Mr. Collins would have been advantageous to the Bennet sisters as the family fortune would have passed to close relatives. However, Elizabeth did not reciprocate the feelings of love for Mr. Collins. Austen had very strong morals when it came to marrying for love, as shown in Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth's refusal to marry Mr. Collins is similar to Emma's rejection by the clergyman, Mr. Elton, resembling Austen's lack of faith in the church and the fact that a marriage between her and a clergyman would not have pleased her.