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'''Jane Austen''' (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an [[United Kingdom|English]] [[novel|novelist]]. Little recognised in her own lifetime, she has become the most widely read author of her era. She is known for her sharply drawn comic novels, portraying the society she lived in, the minor landed gentry of the early nineteenth century. She was born in Steventon, Hampshire to the Reverend George Austen and his wife Cassandra, the seventh of eight children. | '''Jane Austen''' (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an [[United Kingdom|English]] [[novel|novelist]]. Little recognised in her own lifetime, she has become the most widely read author of her era. She is known for her sharply drawn comic novels, portraying the society she lived in, the minor landed gentry of the early nineteenth century. She was born in Steventon, Hampshire to the Reverend George Austen and his wife Cassandra, the seventh of eight children. | ||
==List of works== | |||
===Novels=== | |||
* ''[[Sense and Sensibility]]'' (1811) | |||
* ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' (1813) | |||
* ''[[Mansfield Park (novel)|Mansfield Park]]'' (1814) | |||
* ''[[Emma]]'' (1815) | |||
* ''[[Northanger Abbey]]'' (1817) (posthumous) | |||
* ''[[Persuasion (novel)|Persuasion]]'' (1817) (posthumous) | |||
===Unfinished works=== | |||
*''The Watsons'' | |||
*''Sanditon'' | |||
===Selected juvenilia and early works=== | |||
*''Love and Freindship'' (sic!) | |||
*''Catharine, or the Bower'' | |||
*''The Beautifull Cassandra'' | |||
*''The History of England'' | |||
*''Lady Susan'' | |||
Revision as of 09:13, 22 May 2008
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist. Little recognised in her own lifetime, she has become the most widely read author of her era. She is known for her sharply drawn comic novels, portraying the society she lived in, the minor landed gentry of the early nineteenth century. She was born in Steventon, Hampshire to the Reverend George Austen and his wife Cassandra, the seventh of eight children.
List of works
Novels
- Sense and Sensibility (1811)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Mansfield Park (1814)
- Emma (1815)
- Northanger Abbey (1817) (posthumous)
- Persuasion (1817) (posthumous)
Unfinished works
- The Watsons
- Sanditon
Selected juvenilia and early works
- Love and Freindship (sic!)
- Catharine, or the Bower
- The Beautifull Cassandra
- The History of England
- Lady Susan