Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born in 1775, the seventh of the eight children of a Hampshire clergyman. She grew up at Steventon in a house where the family put on plays, wrote parodies from adolescence and composed the first versions of her novels while very young. She did not marry, and her books appeared without her name, the first signed By a Lady, the following ones in the name of the author of the previous ones. She died in 1817 in Winchester, aged forty-one.

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• NovelPride and PrejudiceJane Austen · 1813LiteraturePublic domain