The History of Jane Austen

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  • Born December 16, 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire. 
  • Father was a clergy man named George Austen.
  • Mother was in a  higher social class then her father her name was Cassandra Leigh Austen
  • She had six brothers: James, George, Edward, Francis, and Charles
  • George was born Handicaped and besause of the time period did not play  a part in the family life
     
  • She had one sister named Cassandra
  • The children were mainly taught by the father although many of the boys went to oxford 
  • When Jane was little her family would read aloud and perform plays for the family
  • Janes closest childhood Friends were Elizabeth, Catherine, and Althea Bigg
  • The brother of these girls; Harris Bigg-Wither, later would proposed to her
  • When Jane was ten she went to Abbey boarding school with her sister
  • Her earliest writings were written in 1795 when Jane was only twenty years old
  • Jane was never married although she came close
  • On  July 18, 1817  from Adisons Disease 
  • list of her books: 
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Mansfield Park 
  • Emma: 
  • Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
  • Lady Susan, and the Watsons 
  • Love & Freindship a
  • The Watsons 
  • Lady Susan 
  • Plan of a Novel according to Hints from Various Quarters, .
  • Two Chapters of Persuasion, 
  • Volume the First [Juvenilia
  • Volume the Third [Juvenilia
  • Volume the Second [Juvenilia


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