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Jane Austen

Pleun Hans, Karlien Lensink en Loes Mombarg

Emma ~ Clueless 

What do you already know about Jane Austen?

Content:

• Family of Jane Austen
• Jane Austen's lifetime
• Jane Austen's work
• In what time did she live and how does her writing style fit in this period?
• 'Emma'

• Film
• Game 

Family of Jane Austen

• Cassandra and George Austen
• 8 children
• December 16th, 1775
• Steventon, Hampshire, England


• Learning and creative thinking

Jane Austen's lifetime

• Cassandra 
• Marriage 
• Love and Friendship; series of love letters 
• Novels
• Pseudonymously 
• Recognition 

What do you think was the real reason for Jane Austen to publish her books anonymously?

1. Her parents didn't want Jane to work
2. She wanted to avoid criticism for her works
3. Women of the gentry were not expected to pursue a profession
4. Her husband wasn't allowed to know

Period of time Jane Austen lived in

• Revolutions
• War 
• Industrial revolution 
• Social class: the gentry
• Marriage

Influence on the English literature

• Little personal fame
• Feminism
• New writing style

How did society look like in the Jane Austen lived?

'Emma'

• Emma Woodhouse
• Matchmaker
• Mr. Knightley
• Harriet Smith
• Visitors --> Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill
• Three marriages

Passage

• Conversation Emma and Harriet
• Mr. Knightley

MR KNIGHTLEY

ROBERT

JANE FAIRFAX

EMMA

HARRIET

FRANK CHURCHILL

Films

• 'Clueless'
• Cher Horowitz

Similarities

• Spoiled
• Feelings of superiority
• Playing matchmaker
• Same message

Which of the answers below are one of the similarities between 'Emma' and 'Clueless' (more answers possible)

1. Playing matchmaker
2. Same surname
3. Same message behind the story/film
4. They both get married at the end

Which county in England was Austen born in? 

Hand up

Hampshire

Hand down

Sommerset

Which of Jane Austen's siblings helped publish two of her novels posthumously? 

Hand up

Henry

Hand down

Cassandra 

Which novel famously opens with the line, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife"?

Hand up

Sense and Sensibility

Hand down

Pride and Prejudice

Fact or Fiction: Jane Austen agreed to marry someone but broke this agreement a day later

Hand up

Fact

Hand down

Fiction

Which of Austen's novels inspired the popular 1995 movie Clueless? 

Hand up

Mansfield Park

Hand down 

Emma 

Fact or Fiction: Austen wrote under the pen name "A Lady"

Hand up

Fact 

Hand down

Fiction