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Apr 3, 2014 · Famous Authors & Writers. Famous British People. Jane Austen was a Georgian era author, best known for her social commentary in novels including 'Sense and Sensibility,' 'Pride and Prejudice'...
Brief overview of the life and times of English Author Jane Austen. Austen's legacy encompasses just 6 major works during her writing career. Detailed biography covering life, death, and major events inbetween. Complete list of Austen-related movies, miniseries', and TV shows.
Mar 2, 2019 · Humanities › History & Culture. Profile of Jane Austen. Novelist of the Romantic Period. Stock Montage / Archive Photos / Getty Images. By. Jone Johnson Lewis. Updated on March 02, 2019. Known for: popular novels of the Romantic period. Dates: December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817. About Jane Austen.
Decades before The Jane Austen Book Club (2004) and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (2009), before Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Beckinsale and Anya Taylor-Joy performed in rival film versions of Emma, “Jane Austen” was simply the name of a well-regarded dead English novelist—arguably, as Virginia Woolf put it, “the most perfect ...
Jane Austen is now one of the best-known and best-loved authors in the English-speaking world. Jane Austen: A brief biography Jane Austen was born at the Rectory in Steventon, a village in north-east Hampshire, on 16th December 1775.
i. j. k. l. m. n. o. p. q. r. s. t. u. v. w. x. y. z. A sketch of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra © Jane Austen was an English novelist whose books, set among the English middle and...
In her six major novels— Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion —Austen created the comedy of manners of middle-class life in the England of her time, revealing the possibilities of “domestic” literature.
