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- Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in Stevenson, Hampshire, England.
- She was the seventh of eight children in her family.
- In 1801, she moved to Bath with her father, mother, and her only sister, Cassandra.
- To acquire formal education, Jane and Cassandra attended boarding schools.
- After her father’s death in 1805, the three women moved to Southampton and then to Chawton in 1809, where Jane lived for the rest of her life.
- Jane Austen never married but led an active and happy life surrounded by her siblings and their families.
- She began writing as a young girl and completed ‘Love and Friendship’ by age 14, showing early talent for humorous and satirical writing.
- The next year, she wrote ‘The History of England,’ a 34-page parody illustrated by Cassandra.
- Three volumes of her juvenilia were published over a hundred years after her death.
- Her focus on characters’ inner thoughts and feelings created profound and precise portrayals of human potential.
- Although she received some recognition during her lifetime, her first three novels gained critical attention and financial reward.
- She died on July 18, 1817, in Winchester while seeking medical care and was buried there.
- Today, she is considered one of the greatest writers in English history.
- Her first major novel, ‘Sense and Sensibility,’ features Elinor Dashwood and Marianne as main characters; it was rewritten in 1797 and published in 1811.
- In 1796, at age 21, she wrote ‘First Impressions,’ which was later rewritten and published as ‘Pride and Prejudice’ in 1813—her most popular and perhaps greatest novel.