“Oh! she is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld!” (7). Jane Austen seems to have connected her personal life with the lives of many of the characters in the novel. The five sisters in the Bennet family all have at least one similar quality to Jane Austen. Jane Bennet is the eldest, “most beautiful” of the sisters--perhaps suggesting potential jealously that Jane Austen had toward her older sister Cassandra. Austen’s lack of romantic relationships coincides with Elizabeth Bennet in the beginning of the novel, however they both are devoted to their elder sister. Jane Austen and her character Mary Bennet both admire reading. Austen and four of the sister characters, especially Lydia, all enjoy partying and dances. Kitty and Lydia’s relationship throughout most of the book strongly relates to Jane and Cassandra Austen’s relationship. Mrs. Austen, the mother, supposedly said that “if Cassandra’s head had been going to be cut off, Jane would have hers cut off too.” Jane Austen most likely portrayed her personal qualities within the five sisters; she gave each one a distinctive characteristic similar to her own life.
"Jane Austen's Biography: Life (1775-1817) and Family." Jane Austen | The Republic of Pemberley. Web. 18 Mar. 2010.
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