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Jane Austen

Jane Austen

1775 CE1817 CE · Novelist · Steventon, Hampshire

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose six major works — Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and the posthumously published Northanger Abbey and Persuasion — depict the domestic lives and marriage prospects of the English landed gentry. The daughter of a country clergyman, she spent her early years at Steventon rectory in Hampshire, wrote steadily from adolescence, and published anonymously during her lifetime, her authorship known only within a small circle. Her novels are marked by irony, free indirect discourse, and close social observation. She died at 41 in Winchester and was buried in the cathedral there.

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Steventon, Hampshire

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