# What do we truly know about the life of Jane Austen?

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Penguin Books UK
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjYfmfxfsCg
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/33731

## Транскрипт

### Segment 1 (00:00 - 01:00) []

Jane went through an incredible dip in her fortunes before she died. I mean, when she died, she thought she was pretty much done as an author. She'd had this flurry with Pride and Prejudice in 1813 was the kind of Bridget Jones of the bestseller list and then it sort of dwindled and then she had this horrible sickness and early death at the age of 41. and Cassandra, who was her best beloved and most devoted sister all of her life. They were so close. They shared a room all their lives. Um Jane died in her arms. So Cassandra was became the keeper of the flame. There wasn't much of a flame to keep to be honest because she was promptly forgotten about. But um she was very conscious of the fact that she may become famous again and that she alone was in control of what we would end up knowing about Jane. [gasps] The thing [snorts] about women in history is that there's it's very hard to find out things out about them because they don't leave records. You know, even from bank records and things like that, you can learn a lot, but there aren't any from women of that time. So really the big source of our information are the many hundreds of letters that Cassandra and Jane wrote to one another. They were forced apart very often by various family circumstances and e economic circumstances. And in that time they wrote often.