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On the sixteenth day of December in the 1775th year, a daughter of the name Jane Austen was born to George and Cassandra Austen of Steventon, Hampshire, England. Austen grew up with a highly literate family – her father being an Oxford-educated clergyman and her mother was a humorous, aristocratic woman. (Biography) Austen had a large family consisting of six brothers and one sister aside from herself and her parents. “Jane grew up with a normal life. She studied at the town of Oxford, and then to the town of Southampton a year later. Much of her acquired education was through reading books, thanks to her father’s library and books given by her brothers and private theatricals held by her family and friends. She learned French, dancing, music, …show more content…
Then, at fifteen years old, she began writing her own novels; and by twenty-three had completed the original versions of Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice. (Biography) Pieces written during 1787 and 1793 are referred to as the ‘Juvenilia.’ Sense and Sensibility was told to Austen’s family by means of letters before it was published under the title in 1811. Around the time that Jane became twenty, the nephew of a neighbor, Tom Lefroy, was visiting Steventon from December 1795 to January 1796. It is believed that Austen and Lefroy were perhaps introduced at a ball or similar social gathering, and in letters sent to her sister, Jane expressed that she and Tom spent considerable time together. Eventually, their families intervened preventing the two young adults from socializing with each other. Jane never married. Then, she began to work on her first novel in 1796, First Impressions. This eventually became Pride and Prejudice and it is probably the most-read of all of Austen’s novels. (The Works of Jane Austen) Austen went on to write Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), Persuasion (1817 - posthumous), Northanger Abbey (1817 - posthumous), and Sanditon (began in 1817, unfinished at time of death.) In March, Austen’s health began to decline and she was forced to abandon Sanditon. (Jane Austen - Biography |

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