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The reception history of Jane Austen follows a path from modest fame to wild popularity. Jane Austen (1775–1817), the author of such works as Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1815), has become one of the best-known and most widely read novelists in the English language. [1] Her novels are the subject of intense scholarly study and the ...
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- Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
- 18 July 1817 (aged 41), Winchester, Hampshire
A picture of Jane Austen. This was drawn by her sister Cassandra (c. 1804) The reception history of Jane Austen shows how Austen's works, at first having modest fame, became wildly popular. Her books are both the subject of great study and the center of various fan culture. Jane Austen, the writer of such works as Pride and Prejudice (1813) and ...
Cassandra Austen's drawing of Mary, Queen of Scots, from her sister Jane's manuscript The History of England. Austen was born in 1773 at a rectory in Steventon, Hampshire, to The Reverend George Austen (1731–1805), a rector, and his wife Cassandra, née Leigh (1739–1827). There were eight Austen children; as Cassandra and Jane were the only ...
- 9 January 1773, Steventon, Hampshire, England
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- 22 March 1845 (aged 72), Portsdown Lodge near Portsmouth, Hampshire
The reception history of Jane Austen follows a path from modest fame to wild popularity. Jane Austen (1775–1817), the author of such works as Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1815), has become one of the best-known and most widely read novelists in the English language. Her novels are the subject of intense scholarly study and the centre of a diverse fan culture.
Mar 24, 2018 · She allegedly looked a lot like her elder brother Edward (later adopted by the Knight family). For a time, Cassandra and her younger sister, the famous Jane, were sent to a relative to be taught, first in Oxford, then in Southampton. Both girls were brought swiftly home when an infectious disease broke out in Southampton.
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Jan 30, 2015 · In 1791, decades before she offered writing advice to her own teenage niece, fifteen-year-old Austen penned The History of England — a short manuscript of 34 pages, subtitled “By a partial, prejudiced & ignorant Historian,” featuring thirteen ink-and-watercolor drawings of English royalty by Austen’s sister, Cassandra. (Austen was not ...
May 1, 2020 · Cassandra was midwife to the novels, and as proud of them as if they were her offspring. When Jane fell ill, she devoted herself to finding a cure. And when the end finally came, Jane died in her arms. Those churlish nieces and nephews—and all Jane Austen fans, indeed—should be on their knees in gratitude.
