Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice, is about a girl that finds true love in the man that she once hated. She was born on December 16, 1775 and died on July 18, 1817. She was the second youngest out of her seven siblings. In her lifetime, she has written six novels, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey. All of her books were very popular, especially Pride and Prejudice. That novel is the most well-known because of all of the drama and the characterization she put into her novel. It was due to her family and time period that she showed her skill in irony and that gained mixed reviews from critics. Influenced by her family members, many of her books can be traced back to her family. Growing up, her family did not have much money, because of that her and her sister, Cassandra, were unable to receive a great education. Putting things in her own hands, she pretty much taught herself many things. She “improved her own mind” by reading many books of different genres, such as novels written by, “William Shakespeare, John Milton, Henry Fielding and many others” (Telgen 283). These authors influenced her drastically. By the age of twelve she had already begun writing for the first time, such as short stories and dramas. Her mother, Cassandra, is “Known for her imaginative impromptu poetry and fiction sessions”, so she could have been influenced by her mother’s story telling talents (Brackett 1). Her father, George Austen, favored education, so this lead to him trying to educate his daughters as well. Also her extended family they gave her “domestic materials” that she could use to write about in her writings (Brackett 1). When she was young, she always liked to entertain her family. It is said that she wrote to entertain herself and also to amuse her family members. This influenced her writing because if it was not for her family she would not have started writing. As a young adult, she experienced many things in many places that she has been to. For instance, she saw how the social statuses were struggling. Another thing is, she also got to see how people were struggling because of finances, especially women. The land gentry also influenced her. There was a gentleman, Thomas Langlois LeFroy that visited his relatives that lived next door to the Austen’s. He was very wealthy and attended many balls that she also attended. They both were attracted to each other. He, knowing of his feelings for her and that she was not of a family with good wealth, he left to Ireland leaving her depressed. This influenced her because this event showed up in many of her novels in many different forms. Also, in her life, she has fallen in love, she has even been engaged for a day. Even though she never got married, many of her books concerns marriage. The fact that she did not get married influenced her drastically. After figuring out how challenging a marriage can be, she used all of the “complex private, moral, and social issues” pertaining to the idea of marriage to be a somewhat main focus in all of her novels (Burt 20). At one time, her, her sister, and her mom all lived on their own. Since she now did not have a man in her household to take care of them that encouraged her to write about how bad it was for a women to live without a male in the household to take care of them. Then, on November 13, 1815, she was invited to go to the royal residences. There, she found out that King George IV was a huge fan of her novels. There, at the royal residence she was met by his librarian, Mr. Clark. Once she met with him, he requested if she would “dedicate her next book to the regent” (Ayres 9). To Austen this was the most “shining moment” in her entir