Jane Austen

Born December 16, 1775· Steventon, Hampshire, England, UK

† Died July 18, 1817

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Raised in Steventon, Hampshire, she benefited from a home-based education that nurtured her literary talents. By her early twenties she had completed the manuscripts of six major novels, though publication arrived only in her mid-thirties. The anonymously issued works-Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and the posthumously released Northanger Abbey and Persuasion-sec… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources