Jane Austen
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Biography: Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in Hampshire, England. Austen was the youngest daughter of six brothers and one sister. Austen was especially attached to her sister, Cassandra, and her brother, Henry, who became his sister’s literary agent. Her sister and she were sent to a Southampton to study in 1783. But Jane nearly died of typhus and both sisters came back home to continue studying there. Between the years 1785 and 1786, both girls went to the Reading Ladies Boarding School, there, they studied French, spelling, needlework, music, and dancing. For economic reasons, they returned home and under the guidance of her father, Austen continued to develop her literary mind. In her teens, Jane wrote poems, stories, and comic pieces. She compiled several of the pieces written into three notebooks, which are now referred to as Austen’s “Juvenalia.” In 1795, Austen met Tom Lefroy and she fell in love with him. But they couldn't marry as they pleased because he was sent far away. After her romance with Lefroy, Jane began to work on her second novel: “Pride and Prejudice.” The Austen family resided at Steventon until 1801, when her father announced his retirement, the family moved to Bath. During her time at Bath, she didn't write really, she only started and gave up some projects. While in Bath, Austen received her only marriage proposal: from Harris BiggWither, the younger brother of family friends and an Oxford graduate six years her junior. He was an attractive bachelor and Austen accepted initially, but changed her mind later.
Jane Austen's biography
When her father died, Austen, her mother and her sister were poor and had to move with one of her brother. Later in 1809, they moved to a cottage at Chawton. While living there, Austen also saw the anonymous publication of four of her novels: “Sense and Sensibility” in 1811, “Pride and Prejudice” in 1813, Mansfield Park in 1814, and “Emma” in 1815. In July 1816, Austen completed the first draft of her next novel, titled “The Elliots,” which would later be published as “Persuasion.” In early 1816, Austen suffered an onset of illness that culminated in her death the following year. Despite her illness, Austen continued to work on her writing, revising the ending to “The Elliots” and starting work on “Sandition.” She died on July 8, 1817, leaving “Sandition” unfinished. The two novels “Northanger Abbey” and “Persuasion” were published in 1817. As with many great authors, however, Austen’s death preceded her renown. In 1833, publisher Richard Bentley published the first collected edition of Austen’s novels; since then, her works have been continually in print. In the twentieth century, Austen’s novels began to attract attention from literary scholars who approached the texts as serious academic studies. There have been more than 200 literary adaptations of Austen’s works in the twentieth century, as well as numerous film versions.
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Jane Austen's biography