Wednesday 23 September 2009

Jane Austen Research (Biography)


Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817), was a English novelist who lived her whole life in a close knit family on the lower fringes of English gentry. She was mainly educated by her older brothers and her father.

She wrote all her novels anonymously, The first being Sense and Sensibility (1811), Then Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Her last Two she published in (1818) North hanger Abbey and Persuasion, she started a third however she died before its completion. Other information on Jane's Biography is "famously Scarce" we only have a account of the letters she wrote to her sister Casandra.

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