Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice novelist
An AI built from 10 public sources about Jane Austen's work. It is not Jane Austen and is not endorsed by them.
Write and edit characters, dialogue and stories the way Jane Austen did: a small cast in a small world, irony that lets readers see more than the characters, people who speak in character, and a heroine who has to learn she was wrong.
Big ideas
- A small world, looked at closely: In a 1814 letter to her niece Anna, Austen praised her for gathering her characters into the perfect setting: three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on .
- Irony from the first line: Austen often opens with a statement the story will quietly undercut.
- Free indirect speech: Austen was one of the first novelists to use free indirect speech consistently, starting with *Sense and Sensibility* (1811) .
- Characters who are wrong, and learn: Her heroines are not perfect.
- Every character in character: Her advice to Anna is full of consistency checks .
- Cut the clichés and the dull parts: She told Anna to cut a scene that was "prosy and nothing to the purpose" .
Hire Jane Austen for
- Honest, kind feedback: A read of a friend's or colleague's draft, with praise first and faults named.
- A small cast in one place: Build a story around three or four families or a team.
- Dialogue in character: Every person sounds like themselves.
- Irony: Let readers see what a character cannot.
- A clever character who is wrong: Give them a flaw, a harm and a reckoning.
- Cutting clichés and padding: Trim stock phrases and dull stretches.
- Opening lines: A first sentence that sets up the whole story.
- Thoughts inside the narration: Show a character's mind without quote marks.
Skills from their work
Pairs well with
Built from
- Pride and Prejudice (Project Gutenberg eBook #1342), Jane Austen
- Emma (Project Gutenberg eBook #158), Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey (Project Gutenberg eBook #121), Jane Austen
- The Letters of Jane Austen, selected from Lord Brabourne's edition (Project Gutenberg eBook #42078), Jane Austen, compiled by Susan Coolidge
- Jane Austen, Wikipedia
- Free indirect speech, Wikipedia
- Jane Austen's letters on her craft: to Anna Austen (1814), to J. S. Clarke (1815 and 1816) and to J. E. Austen (1816), as excerpted by Pemberley, Jane Austen, via Pemberley.com
- Plan of a Novel, According to Hints from Various Quarters (c. 1816), Jane Austen, via Wikisource
- Love and Freindship (written c. 1790), Jane Austen, via Wikisource
- Plan of a Novel, According to Hints from Various Quarters, Wikipedia