Annotated+Bibliography

**Primary Sources**

**MacIntosh, Joan, and Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. London: Macmillan, 1962. Print**
The novel __Pride and Prejudice__ is a thrilling account of the everyday going ons of the upper class society in the early 1800s. The ideals that are instilled in each of the characters show the type of society that there were brought up in. The story focuses mainly on a daughter of an upper class family that strives to break the mold that has been presented to her. She doesn't want to follow in her mother and older sister's footsteps in just finding a husband and disappear within their life. She wants more, which pushes all the other characters to their limits!

Many of the prejudices that were shown in this book were experienced by Austen herself. She lived a priviledged life very similar to the Bennett girls of this story. She didn't have to extremely psychatic parents that the Bennett sister's had, but the fact that she lived in the upper class in this society was reflected by her imput in the book. She used her knowledge of this society to enhance the crebility of the book. Also Jane was very close to her sister that died at a very young age. She could have been working out some sisterly love as she was trying to live through Elizabeth in this story.

Austen, Jane. //Sense and Sensibility//. Barcelona: Vicens Vives, 2006. Print.
__Sense and Sensibility__ by Jane Austen. When Mr. Dashwood dies leaving his three children (one son, two daughters) and wife he makes his married son promise to help support his mother and sisters. John Dashwood’s greedy wife Fanny persuades him to keep the money for their own benefit. Mrs. Dashwood and her two daughters Elinor and Marianne are allowed to remain in the house; however they eventually leave, because they were treated like vermin. Elinor meets Fanny’s brother Edward Ferrars and a love interest is sparked. Marianne meets Colonel Brandon, but fears he is too old for her. Shortly after that Marianne is saved from a rain storm on a sprained ankle by John Willoughby. She instantly falls in the love with him, however his interest is suspect. She believes he truly loves her, but is forced away on business to London. Eventually Elinor and Marianne go to London, and after a series of unanswered letters Marianne had been sending to Willoughby, she learns of his marriage to a wealthy woman in London. Marianne became deathly ill after hearing this news. When Willoughby gets word of this he rushes to Marianne’s bedside drunk and confessing that he did truly love her. However, Marianne ended up marrying Colonel Brandon and Elinor marries Edward.

Again, Austen is using her knowledge in the upper class society of the early 19th century to write a book. I found that these two books were very similar. It seems Austen likes to stay in this style, as she feels most comfortable writing realistic fiction regaurding her own lifestyle.

**Secondary Sources**

"About Jane Austen." //The Jane Austen Society of North America//. Web. 08 Dec. 2011. []. **Summary:** This site provides background inforamation on Jane Austen life with pictures **Quote:** "Austen's parents, George Austen (1731–1805), and his wife Cassandra (1739–1827), were members of substantial gentry families" **Meaning:** This site was meaningful because it helped us start reseching Austen be asue it had a lot of clear, basic information. The base helped us complete the entire project spanning from her childhood to her death. The summary of her life also gave us insight about some of the motivation she attained throughout her life. Her experiences also shaped some of her most famous works including __Pride and Prejudice__ and __Sense and Sensibility__.

 Fullerton, Susannah. "Jane Austen Biography." //Jane Austen Society of Australia (JASA) //. Web. 19 Jan. 2012. <http://www.jasa.net.au/jabiog.htm>. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Quote:** " <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">To Mrs Dashwood, a romantic, his ‘quietness of manner... militated against all her established ideas of what a young man’s address ought to be’(16), though she had the highest opinion of his heart." <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Meaning:** This site was meaningful because it gave us many interpretations of the text from not just the author of the site, but also from various readers that have sent in their own responses.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Summary: **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> This site provides literary criticism of her various works.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Jane Austen." //Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia//. Web. 15 Dec. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen>. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Summary:** This site provides background inforamation on Jane Austen life and a list of her famous works. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Quote:** "Austen's parents, George Austen (1731–1805), and his wife Cassandra (1739–1827), were members of substantial gentry families" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Meaning:** Wikipedia is where every project seems to start. It may not be the most reliable website, however it gets us started with a good background and spring board into other basic information about our objective. The timeline and list of literary works were the most important information we took from wikipedia. We searched different sites after we found a place to start.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Jane Austen Life and Works Timeline History." //Jane Austen - Biography, Timeline, Books, Movies, Quotes, Fashion//. Web. 8 Dec. 2011. []. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Summary:** This site provides a detailed timeline of Austen's life <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Quote:** "Jane and her elder sister Cassandra leave for Mrs. Crawley's boarding scholl in Oxford for their formal education." <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Meaning:** This site was meaningful because it helped us understand where Austen came from and how her past expereicnes influenced her writing. As was mentioned before she had a close relationship with her sister that died untimely. Many other events affected her writing career including her father letting her use his library which was of paramount importance in sparking he love of literature.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Schurman, Aysha. "Jane Austen's Writing Style - Life123." // Articles and Answers about Life - Life123 //. Web. 06 Jan. 2012. <http://www.life123.com/arts-culture/british-authors/jane-austen/jane-austens-writing-style.shtml>. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Summary:** This site provides a concise description of Austen's writing style <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Quote:**" She could come up with a powerful and dramatic scene on one page and lead it into a biting and satirical scene on the next page"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meaning: **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> This site was meaningful because it helped us better understand what Austen was trying to say through her writing. Often we were confused with what was occuring in the story due to the old english that was littered throughout the story. also we found many of the underlying themes that weren't as obvious as the main ones. This gave us a better understanding of the meaning of the plot.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Sherry. "Jane Austen and Writing Style." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Semicolon | Books We Must Have Though We Lack Bread. //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;"> 22 Nov. 2004. Web. 9 Jan. 2012. <http://www.semicolonblog.com/?p=399>.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Summary: **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> This site provides literary criticism on all of Austen's books.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Quote: **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> " <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Austen uses a lot of passive voice constructions and mostly “tells instead of shows” us her characters and their strengths and weaknesses <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meaning: **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> This site was meaningful because it took a point of view held by another blogger and then showed evidence as to why she disagreed. This gave us two different ways of looking at the same thing.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on Pride and Prejudice.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. 2007. Web. 30 Dec. 2011. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Summary:** This site provides a detailed summary and anaylsis of each chapter of Pride and Prejudice <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Quote:** "The first chapter consists almost entirely of dialogue, a typical instance of Austen’s technique of using the manner in which characters express themselves to reveal their traits and attitudes" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Meaning:** This site was meaningful because it gave us a diferent point of view on certain topics and it also helped us analyze parts of the story that we would have otherwise missed.