THE NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE AND FEMINIST MOTIVES IN JANE AUSTEN’S NOVELS

Ajda Güney ¹

This study aims to explore feminist viewpoints in Jane Austen’s works in general. As a famous 19th Century novelist, Jane Austen tried to show the realities of women in her time. The common theme in all Austen’s works includes the marriages of young women and the general social class structure of England in the 19th Century. Jane Austen was a published female novelist who wrote under her own name which can be seen as an important feminist quality. She gifted six novels to readers about women centred in the thoughts, desires and behaviours of them. Besides, new innovations in the 19th Century literature have also been mentioned in this study.

Keywords
Jane Austen, 19th Century Literature, Feminism, Novel, Social class,