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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.
Jane Austen, (born Dec. 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, Eng.—died July 18, 1817, Winchester, Hampshire), English novelist. The daughter of a rector, she lived in the circumscribed world of minor landed gentry and country clergy that she was to use in her writing; her closest companion was her sister, Cassandra.
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.
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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 ...
Birth and Family Life. Jane Austen came into the world on December 16th, 1775. Born to Reverend George Austen of the Steventon rectory and Cassandra Austen of the Leigh family. She was to be their seventh child and only the second daughter to the couple.
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