Biography
Jane Austen
- 1775-1817
- One of 7 children
- Dad was a clergyman
- Home educated
- She began writing plays in her teenage years to entertain her family
- She began writing novels in her 20's
- Northanger Abbey (published in 1818)
- Pride and Prejudice (publshed in 1813)
- Sense and Sensibility (published in 1811)
- Mansfield Park (published in 1814)
- Emma (published in 1816)
- She did not want the fame of being an author so all of her books were published anonymously
- She never married
- She died of a sudden illness
- Her brother, Henry, published Northanger Abbey and Persuasion in 1818 and revealed her identity
- http://www.janeausten.org/