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Jane Austen | Biography, Books, Movies, & Facts | Britannica

Jane Austen (born December 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, England—died July 18, 1817, Winchester, Hampshire) was an English writer who ...

Jane Austen - Wikipedia

Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at ...

Jane Austen Biography - Chicago Public Library

Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire on December 16, 1775 and grew up in a tight-knit family. She was the seventh of eight children, with six brothers ...

JASNA - Jane Austen Society of North America

Jane Austen (1775-1817), one of England's foremost novelists, was never publicly acknowledged as a writer during her lifetime.

A Life | Jane Austen's House

Jane Austen was born in 1775 and grew up in the small Hampshire village of Steventon, where her father was a Church of England clergyman.

Jane Austen's Enduring Popularity - Omnia

Her first published book, Sense and Sensibility, listed its author simply as A Lady. In literary circles, however, Austen was known. Her final ...

The Anonymous Jane Austen | Great Writers Inspire

The novel made her more money than any other in her lifetime, more than £320. Jane Austen dealt masterfully with many themes, some ...

A Timeline of Jane Austen's Life and Works

Pride and Prejudice is published, 'by the author of Sense and Sensibility'. 1814. Mansfield Park is published. Jane begins writing Emma. 1816. Emma is published ...

About Jane Austen | Hampshire Cultural Trust

Hampshire was not only the birthplace of Jane Austen, but its people and the society in which she moved, provided inspiration for many of her novels, classics ...

How Jane Austen's Emma changed the face of fiction - The Guardian

In January 1814, Jane Austen sat down to write a revolutionary novel. Emma, the book she composed over the next year, was to change the shape of ...

Jane Austen: A Guide To Her Life, Books, Facts & Death - HistoryExtra

Jane Austen, a parson's daughter who grew up in quiet rural Hampshire in the 18th century, is one of England's most acclaimed novelists. She originally started ...

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) - CandiceHern.com

Sense and Sensibility was published anonymously (“By a Lady”), and her brother Henry financed the publication. The novel was well-received and made a small ...

The Life and Times of Jane Austen – Storytelling - Pressbooks Create

She was to be their seventh child and only the second daughter to the couple. Her siblings were made up largely of brothers, which in some ways forced a close ...

Jane Austen's Works » JASNA

Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion. These novels, as well as her juvenilia and unfinished works, are ...

Stanford literary scholars reflect on Jane Austen's legacy

Austen, who died on July 18, 1817, at 41, is known for her six completed novels, among them the highly adapted Pride and Prejudice and Sense and ...

Jane Austen - Regency, Satire, Romance | Britannica

In her six major novels—Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion—Austen created ...

The Mysterious Miss Austen | National Endowment for the Humanities

Austen had lived with Elizabeth, Jane, Bingley, and Darcy for more than fifteen years. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty.

Why do people say Jane Austen invented the novel as we know it?

the art of the novel — at least as the Western readers know it — was invented by the Spaniard Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra with his masterpiece ...

Jane Austen Biography

Jane Austen came into the world on December 16th, 1775. Born to Reverend George Austen of the Steventon rectory and Cassandra Austen of the Leigh family. She ...

Jane Austen's Fame and Fortune, Now and Then

Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel, was signed “By A Lady”. All her other books were attributed “to the author” of her previously ...