Similarities Between Jane Austen And Angela Davis

Both authors are completely different on many points. Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 in Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, England. She was an English writer. The period she is writing can be considered as the birth of the English novel. There is an intricate narrative structure, a sparkling pros and all this with witty dialogues.
Whereas Angela Davis was born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham (Alabama State), USA. She is known as a radical African- American. She is also known as a writer, an activist for civil rights, women’s rights and other social issues and also as an educator. She also worked as a professor.
Jane Austen was a white woman and her parents were part of the better English society. They were belonging to the lower landed gentry. We can say that Jane Austen grew up in a close- knit family. The family spirit was really focused on learning and education. Whereas Angela Davis is a « black » woman which is considered as inferior class at this times. Angela Davis and her family lived in the « Dynamite Hill » neighbourhood which was known for racial conflict.
Jane Austen and her sister received a good education. In 1783 their

parents sent them to Mrs. Crawley’s boarding school in Oxford. They moved with her to Southampton. But they soon had to return home because they becoming very ill; they contracted typhus. For Jane it was a serious issue and she nearly died from her fever. In 1785 the sisters attended another boarding school in Reading. But after less than a year (1786) they returned home because the family could not afford the tuition fees of the school. After returning from school in 1786 Jane never again lived outside her family environment. To complete her education, she decided to read books with the help from her father and her brothers.
Whereas Angela Davis was going to Tuggle School who was a black elementary school, later she moved to a middle-school branch of Parker High School in Birmingham.

Angela Davis grew up in an intellectual development. She was decisively influenced by the thinking of the communist’s organizations. Her mother was a federal leading officer and organizer of the Southern Negro Youth Congress which was heavily influenced by the Communist Party. As very young women she has applied to an American Friends Service Committees program who had the power to arrange that South black students were integrated in school in the North. She chose Elisabeth Irwin High Schools in Greenwich Village where she was introduced to socialism and communism. As a teenager Angela Davis organized interracial study groups, which were broken up by the

police.
Angela Davis was jailed 18 months for charges related to an escape attempt in the courtroom during the Jackson trial, through ultimately cleared.
The basics to become a professional writer for Jane Austen came from her family. When she was 4 years old she started writing short stories and poems. She explored different genres and was able to find her literary voice. Once she was 14 years old she decided to become a professional writer. Jane wrote for prestige and she aims to influence the position of women in the society through novels that were considered at that time for women only. In 1790 Jane Austen is producing the compilation Juvenilia. She will later on criticize her own work in her first novel Sense and Sensibility which appear in October 1811. And for Angela Davis the motivation to become a professional writer is coming from her day-to day fighting for equality for everyone. Angela Davis is the author of several books. She advocates for the oppressed, gender equality, prison reform and alliances across colour lines. Angela Davis was writing « where, for example, does a transgender woman figure into the hierarchy? » But the fast evolution in our mentalities now brings on stage a famous male transgender as Caitlyn Jenner.