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Jane Austen is born to George Austen and Cassandra, she has six brothers and on sister who is also called Cassandra.
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This year Jane and Cassandra leave home in pursuit of formal education for a boarding school in Oxford. However, the school is moved to Southampton where Typhoid fever infects many children. So, the girls go back home. They soon continue their education in 1785.
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Jane begins to write stories and novels
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This is the year that Jane Austen suposedly determined to make writing her profession. She began her novel Love and Friendship and dedicated it to her cousin Eliza.
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Before the year 1796, Jane read her novel Elinor and Marianne to her family. This novel is modernly known as Sense and Sensibility,
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Jane begins to write the famous Pride and Prejudice.
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Jane's father tries to publish one of her novels but was denied by Thomas Cadell in London.
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Jane begins to write Nothanger Abbey, and also finishing the early revisions of Elinor and Marianne.
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George Austens unexpectedly retires from the ministry and moves his family to Bath
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Jane's dad dies unexpectedly and the family has to rent a home.
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Because of George Austen's death, the women have no way to earn money of their own. Therefore after many different moves, the Austen women decide to live in Southampton with Jane's brother, Frank, until he offers them a cottage in Chawton as a permanent home.
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Jane decides to work on Sense and Sensibility again in 1809 and it is accepted for publishing by Thomas Egerton the next year.It is finally published with Henry Austen as agent.
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The copyright to Pride and Prejudice was accpeted for publishing in 1812 for 100 pounds. Thomas Egerton published it the next year, with Henry Austen as the agent again. It was an instant success.
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Thomas Egerton agrees to publish Mansfield Park. Although reviews were not too good, the first edition sold out in 6 months. By Ocober all copies were sold - making it the most profitable novel she has published so far!
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Jane is taken to Cheltenham by her sister Cassandra for medical attention. Jane still persists on contuing her writing. She was working on a novel called The Elliots at the time. Eventually this novel came to be known as Persuasion. She was able to finish this novel on Tuesday, August 6, 1816.
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By this time, Jane had already written a short will, and had been confined to her bed by April that same year. Despite the medical attention from Cassandra, Jane Austen is unable to finish her many drafts of novels, and dies at the young age of 41 in Winchester.
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To commemorate Jane forever, her nephew - James Austen - publishes a memoir called A Memoir of the Life of Jane Austen.
