精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上你自己看一下,提取你认为要演讲的东西。读一遍对你有好处,等演讲完了别人问你问题也好回答。Jane Austen (1775-1817)English writer, who first gave the novel its modern character through the treatment of everyday life. Although Austen was widely read in her lifetime, she published her works anonymously. The most urgent preoccupation of her bright, young heroines is courtship and finally marriage. Austen herself never married. Her best-known books include PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1813) and EMMA (1816). Virginia Woolf called