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May 13, 2024 · Life. Novelist Jane Austen. Jane Austen, pencil-and-watercolor sketch on paper by her sister, Cassandra Austen, c. 1810; in the National Portrait Gallery, London. (more) Jane Austen was born in the Hampshire village of Steventon, where her father, the Reverend George Austen, was rector.
May 7, 2024 · Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire on December 16, 1775 and grew up in a tight-knit family. She was the seventh of eight children, with six brothers and one sister. Her parents, George Austen and Cassandra Leigh, were married in 1764.
May 15, 2024 · Her parents were George and Cassandra Austen, both of whom had ties to the aristocracy. George Austen was a clergyman at Steventon Rectory, who taught live-in students and had an extensive library, which were Austen’s primary sources of education. Austen only had one sister, Cassandra, and they were inseparable friends throughout their lifetimes.
6 days ago · Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, England. Her father, George Austen, was a rector, and her mother, Cassandra Leigh, came from a higher social class. Jane was the seventh of eight children. She had six brothers and one sister, Cassandra, with whom she shared a close bond throughout her life.
May 13, 2024 · Pride and Prejudice, romantic novel by Jane Austen, published anonymously in three volumes in 1813. A classic of English literature, written with incisive wit and superb character delineation, it centers on the burgeoning relationship between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy.
6 days ago · The novelist Jane Austen lived at Steventon for the first twentyfive years of her life (1775–1800), her father, the Rev. George Austen, being rector of Steventon for over forty years, and it was here that she wrote Pride and Prejudice, 1796–7 and Northanger Abbey, 1798.
1 day ago · Holden Caulfield. Holden Caulfield, the disillusioned teenager at the heart of J.D. Salinger’s, The Catcher in the Rye, is deeply intertwined with Salinger’s own experiences and personality ...
