Author
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction set among the gentry have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature.
Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath and then to Chawton in Hampshire. She wrote from a young age and Pride and Prejudice was begun when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions. It was initially rejected by the publisher she submitted it to and eventually published in 1813 after much revision.
All four of her novels published in her lifetime - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma - were published anonymously. Jane Austen died on 18 July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1817.