摘要

简•奥斯汀是世界上最著名的女性作家之一。她的一生共创作了六部作品，分别是：《傲慢与偏见》、《理智与情感》、《爱玛》、《曼斯菲尔德庄园》、《诺桑觉寺》和《劝导》。她的小说主要讲述了女士和男士之间的爱情故事。简•奥斯汀从女性视角塑造了不同的女性角色。本论文着重探讨简•奥斯汀小说的共性,包括两个主旨----爱情和婚姻，爱情和金钱在婚姻中的关系，灰姑娘模式和女性意识。另外，本论文也从简•奥斯汀生活时代的社会背景，女性地位以及她的特殊生活经历分析了其作品共性背后的原因。

关键词：简•奥斯汀的小说，共性，原因

Abstract

Jane Austen, one of the most remarkable female writers in the world, wrote six novels in her whole life: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Her novels mainly talked about trivial matters of love and marriage between ladies and gentlemen. From the view of female, Jane Austen created these novels with different female characters. This thesis focuses on the common features of Jane Austen’s novels, including two themes--love and marriage, the relationship between love and money in marriage, the Cinderella model and feminist consciousness. In addition, the thesis also pays attention to explore the reasons for the common features from the social background, female’s status at that time and Jane Austen’s unique life experience.

Key words: Jane Austen’s novels, common features, reasons

1. Introduction
Jane Austen (1775-1817) is regarded as one of the greatest and best loved novelists in English literature, and one of the most important Pioneers in the English realistic novel. She builds a bridge between the tradition of realistic novel of the eighteenth century and the climax of the social realistic novel of Victorian Age. In her novels, one can find the rationalism of neoclassicism, and the truthfully detailed descriptions of realism. She earns the high esteem by her six great completed works, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
Jane Austen’s works did not evoke a repercussion in literary field in her own time until her death. With the publication of her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh's memoir of Jane Austen, the readers began to know Austen, and her novels attracted the attention of well- known critics and scholars at that time.