Does Elizabeth Bennet reflect Jane Austen?

Answer 1

I believe she does, to a fairly great extent. Both loved to dance and flirt. Both were bright and thoughtful. I believe Jane Austen may have drawn a lot of her picture of Elizabeth's prejudice from her own life. Both were relatively poor and both rejected marriage to very wealthy men at some point in their lives.

There were a lot of characters in Austen's writing who reflected her own nature and condition. Catherine, in Northanger Abbey, had some of Austen's literary interests, and her imagination might have been a caricature of Austen's own. Elinor and Marianne, in Sense and Sensibility, may have been portraits of different sides of Austen's own psyche; certainly they lived with their mother in a way that was much like the way Austen and her sister, Cassandra, lived with theirs. And many people have commented on the relationship between Austen's lack of money, at some points in her life, and the condition of Miss Bates in Emma. We might suspect there are similarities in attitude, especially about Bath, between Jane Austen and Anne Elliot in Persuasion.

Answer 2

Elizabeth Bennet reflects some aspects of Jane Austen, such as her wit, intelligence, and strong sense of independence. However, Elizabeth is a fictional character created by Jane Austen and may not necessarily represent her in entirety.