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1. www.britannica.com › biography › Jane-AustenJane Austen | Biography, Books, Movies, & Facts | Britannica

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   Mar 28, 2024 · Jane Austen (born December 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, England—died July 18, 1817, Winchester, Hampshire) was an English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life. She published four novels during her lifetime: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice ...

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3. janeaustensworld.com › category › jane-austen-novelsJane Austen Novels | Jane Austen's World

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   Apr 8, 2024 · 26 April 1764: Rev. George Austen marries Cassandra Leigh. 23 April 1774: Francis (Frank) Austen (Jane’s brother) born at Steventon. April 1786: Francis Austen enters the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth. 15 April 1793: James Austen’s first child, Anna, is born. Historic Dates:

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   Mar 26, 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. Her father was an orphan but with the help of a rich uncle he attended school and was ordained by the ...

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6. www.britannica.com › topic › Persuasion-novel-by-AustenPersuasion | Novel, Plot, Characters, & Facts | Britannica

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   Apr 2, 2024 · Persuasion, novel by Jane Austen, published posthumously in 1817. Unlike her novel Northanger Abbey, with which it was published, Persuasion (written 1815–16) is a work of Austen’s maturity. Like Mansfield Park and Emma, it contains subdued satire and develops the comedy of character and manners. Persuasion. Nikki Amuka-Bird (left) and ...

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7. janeaustensworld.com › 2024/04/08 › april-in-janeApril in Jane Austen’s World | Jane Austen's World

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   Apr 8, 2024 · April Dates of Importance. This brings us now to several dates that would have been important to Austen personally and to the Austen family as a whole: Family News: 26 April 1764: Rev. George Austen marries Cassandra Leigh. 23 April 1774: Francis (Frank) Austen (Jane’s brother) born at Steventon.

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   Who was Jane Austen?

   • Jane Austen, pencil-and-watercolour sketch on paper by her sister, Cassandra Austen, c. 1810; in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Jane Austen was born in the Hampshire village of Steventon, where her father, the Reverend George Austen, was rector. She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight—six boys and two girls.

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   • Jane Austen (born December 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, England—died July 18, 1817, Winchester, Hampshire) was an English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life.

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   Where did Jane Austen live?

   • The house in which Jane Austen lived from 1809 to 1817, Chawton, England. Eventually, in 1809, Jane’s brother Edward was able to provide his mother and sisters with a large cottage in the village of Chawton, within his Hampshire estate, not far from Steventon.

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   • Jane Austen was born in the Hampshire village of Steventon, where her father, the Reverend George Austen, was rector. She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight—six boys and two girls. Her closest companion throughout her life was her elder sister, Cassandra; neither Jane nor Cassandra married.

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   Mar 26, 2024 · Closer to Austen’s home, Great Britain combined with Ireland to become the United Kingdom, the slave trade was abolished by Parliament throughout the British empire and King George III, driven to apparent madness by what historians now suspect to have been a rare hereditary metabolic disorder, was replaced in his duties by his son, the Prince ...

10. janeausteninvermont.blogJane Austen in Vermont – Random Musings of a Janeite

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    Apr 11, 2024 · Today is Jane Austen’s birthday, 248 years ago! To quote her father George Austen in a letter to his sister Mrs. Walter on Dec 17, 1775: “You have doubtless been for some time in expectation of hearing from Hampshire, and perhaps wondered a little we were in our old age grown such bad reckoners but so it was, for Cassey certainly expected to have been brought to bed a month ago: however ...