A Memoir of Jane Austen

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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comFamily Connections 19and shared the same bed-room, till separated by death. Theywere not exactly alike. Cassandra’s was the colder and calmerdisposition; she was always prudent and well judging, but withless outward demonstration of feeling and less sunniness oftemper than Jane possessed. It was remarked in her family that‘Cassandra had the merit of having her temper always undercommand, but that Jane had the happiness of a temper that neverrequired to be commanded.’ When ‘Sense and Sensibility’ cameout, some persons, who knew the family slightly, surmised thatthe two elder Miss Dashwoods were intended by the author forher sister and herself; but this could not be the case. Cassandra’scharacter might indeed represent the ‘sense’ of Elinor, but Jane’shad little in common with the ‘sensibility’ of Marianne. Theyoung woman who, before the age of twenty, could so clearlydiscern the failings of Marianne Dashwood, could hardly havebeen subject to them herself.This was the small circle, continually enlarged, however, by theincreasing families of four of her brothers, within which JaneAusten found her wholesome pleasures, duties, and interests, andbeyond which she went very little into society during the last tenyears of her life. There was so much that was agreeable andattractive in this family party that its members may be excused ifthey were inclined to live somewhat too exclusively within it.They might see in each other much to love and esteem, andsomething to admire. The family talk had abundance of spirit andvivacity, and was never troubled by disagreements even in littlematters, for it was not their habit to dispute or argue with eachother: above all, there was strong family affection and firm union,never to be broken but by death. It cannot be doubted that all thishad its influence on the author in the construction of her stories,in which a family party usually supplies the narrow stage, whilethe interest is made to revolve round a few actors.It will be seen also that though her circle of society was small,yet she found in her neighbourhood persons of good taste andcultivated minds. Her acquaintance, in fact, constituted the veryclass from which she took her imaginary characters, ranging fromthe member of parliament, or large landed proprietor, to the
More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com20Family Connectionsyoung curate or younger midshipman of equally good family; andI think that the influence of these early associations may be tracedin her writings, especially in two particulars. First, that she isentirely free from the vulgarity, which is so offensive in somenovels, of dwelling on the outward appendages of wealth or rank,as if they were things to which the writer was unaccustomed; and,secondly, that she deals as little with very low as with very highstations in life. She does not go lower than the Miss Steeles, Mrs.Elton, and John Thorpe, people of bad taste and underbredmanners, such as are actually found sometimes mingling withbetter society. She has nothing resembling the Brangtons, orMr. Dubster and his friend Tom Hicks, with whom MadameD’Arblay° loved to season her stories, and to produce strikingcontrasts to her well bred characters.
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