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= **JANE AUSTEN** = **(December 16th, 1775 - July 18th, 1817)**

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, at Steventon Rectory in Hampshire, the seventh child of a country clergyman and his wife, George and Cassandra Austen. She was educated mainly at home benefiting from her fathers extensive library. Although she spent a great amount of time at home she gained worldly knowlege through her brothers who were officers in the Navy. As a child Austen began writing comic stories, now referred to as the Juvenilia. She wrote her first novel in her early twenties starting with Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. In 1809 Edward provided Austen and her sister a comfortable cottage near Hampshire. This was the beginning of Austen’s most productive period. In 1811, at the age of 35, Austen published //Sense and Sensibility,// //Pride and Prejudice// followed in 1813, //Mansfield Park// in 1814, and //Emma// in 1815. The title page of each book referred to one or two of Austen’s earlier novels—capitalizing on her growing reputation—but did not provide her name. Throught the next twenty years she publised numerous novels (see list below)usually dealing with 18th century England and from the voice of a young woman. Jane Austen died on July 18, 1817, at age 41.She never wrote a memoir, sat for an interview, or recorded whether she had herself felt the joys and disappointments of love.

**List of Works:**
 * Pride and Prejudice (1813)
 * Sense and Sensibility (1811)
 * Mansfield Park (1814)
 * Emma (1815)
 * Nothhanger Abbey (1818, posthumos)
 * Persuasion (1818, posthumos)
 * Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (parody novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, 2009)
 * Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (parody novel by Ben H. Winters, 2009)