Author Jane Austen (1775-1817) by Rafael Castillo Santamaría

Biography

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Jane Austen was born in Steventon, England on December 16, 1775, she was the seventh of eight children, with six brothers and one sister. Her parents, George Austen and Cassandra Leigh, were married in 1764. She published four novels during her lifetime. Her novels defined the era’s novel of manners, but they also became timeless classics that remained critical and popular.

Both Jane and her sister Cassandra were mostly educated at home, though they spent a short period of time at Abbey School.

Jane's relationship with her sister was perhaps the strongest connection which existed in her life. Her numerous letters to and from Cassandra provide the basis for much of the knowledge Austen scholars have gleaned about Jane. Jane Austen died on July 18, 1817, at age 42.

Literary Period

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Jane Austen wrote about what she knew which is why all her novels are set in the time period she lived and wrote in which was the Georgian Era. Austen lived from 1775-1817 in England during the Georgian era which was from 1714- 1837. The Georgian era was notable for its social and class reform brought about by the Industrial and Agricultural Revolution as well as its enlarged trade empire and success in colonization save for the American Revolution as to which Austen lived through.

Relevant Works

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Sense and Sensibility, was Austen's first novel to be published (1811).

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This beginning of Pride and Prejudice (1813), is one of the most famous in world literature. And it is Jane Austen's most famous work.

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Mansfield Park (1814).

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First published in (1815)

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Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous).

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Persuasion (1818, posthumous).

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Letters (1796–1817).

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Juvenilia (1787 to 1793)