Jane Austen (1775–1817) influenced literature through her skillfully told and beautifully structured novels centering on young women who voyage to self-discovery on the passage through love to marriage. Austen’s works, which include such timeless classics as Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Pride and Prejudice (1813), focus on easily recognizable aspects of life, on character and personality, and on the tensions between her heroines and their society. They also realistically treat issues of social class, gender, and power. These aspects make her novels relate more closely to the modern world than to the traditions of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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