Her first love ended in a forced breakup, and then she chose not to marry for the rest of her life, and injected all her unfinished emotions into literary creation.
Here she is Jane Austen, author of the classic romance novel Pride and Prejudice, a British female writer.
She never married, devoted all her talents, and in her short 42 years, she wrote well-known novels such as "Pride and Prejudice", "Reason and Emotion", "Emma", "Mansfield Manor" and so on. These novels always revolve around "love" and achieve many happy marriages. This is the author's preference for the characters in the story, and it is also the indomitable attitude to the harsh reality.
In 1796, at the age of 20, Austin fell in love with Lefroy, a young Irish lawyer—resourceful and talented, intelligent, cunning, handsome, and in love.
However, the pastoral family in Austin wanted the future son-in-law to have financial power, and Lefroy was still a poor boy at that time. The LeFroy family, with 6 children, also insisted on marrying the rich family, so they asked Lefroy to return to Ireland, and the two never saw each other again. After that, she chose not to marry for the rest of her life.
In the movie "Becoming Jane Austen", the two decide to elope desperately in order to be able to be together, but at the last moment, Austin is willing to give up this opportunity to be together for the sake of Lefroy's future and family. In an encounter many years later, after many years of age, they met each other, and the deep love in their eyes was still revealed.
Lefroy introduced his eldest daughter to Austin, and he named her Jane, the same name as Austin, and for this reason Lefroy expressed his feelings for Austin's life. Although we can't be together, I still love you, I haven't forgotten you, I haven't forgotten love.
I can't help but cry when I see this place, perhaps the greatest and most sincere love is fulfillment.
Today, Jane Austen's work has been circulating in the world for more than two hundred years, and the love for her works continues unabated, especially the novel "Pride and Prejudice". It has been adapted into TV series and movies on the screen many times, and has become an unforgettable film and television classic in our hearts, such as the 1995 BBC "Pride and Prejudice" TV series, 2005 directed by Joe White, Starring Kayla Knightley (Elizabeth), Matthew McFaedden (Darcy) "Pride and Prejudice" film.
This classic and immortal love saga is like a beautiful dream, many of us may have pursued it all our lives, but the reality is often cruel. It is precisely because of the cruelty of reality that Austin favors the characters in the story and gives them a happy ending.
In reality, Austin and her sister have never married, but in "Pride and Prejudice", the eldest daughter of the Bennett family, Jane, and the second daughter Elizabeth, have finally achieved a happy ending after going through twists and turns. This may be a kind of comfort, but also a kind of intolerance.
Two hundred years ago, there were very few people who dared to pursue free love, did not settle, and did not succumb to reality, and today, sincere love is still a scarce thing. People have not changed much in their views on money and material things; in marriage, the element of love is still pitifully small. The more this is the case, the more I feel that Jane Austen two hundred years ago is a representative of the progress of love thought, the story respects the women's own ideas, does not blindly follow in marriage, and pays attention to the fit of the spiritual world of the two. Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice is the best example.
Elizabeth dares to chase after sincere love, even if she eventually becomes an old girl who can't marry. Under the coercion of her mother and the embarrassment of real life, if there is no love, she still chooses to refuse the marriage proposal of rich and powerful people, and her attitude is decisive and unambiguous. Until there is love between each other, it will continue to go on.
How pure such a person's life is, how much courage and determination it takes.
In love and marriage, women are no longer just looking up to the roles of others, no longer just passive, but have their own attitudes, have their own opinions, and step by step towards independence. This is an extremely difficult process, Austin's whole life has been on this road, for us to establish a new posture of women in life, love, that is another kind of search and attachment of our life.