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Jane Austen
She was an English novelist, who wrote many novels all starred by women.
Her stories marked the modal novel of the 19century and two centuries later they are still considered great classics of literature. -
Date of birth.
She was born in a small town called Steventon, in the north of Hampshire (UK).She was the seventh of eight siblings and she spent hours among the books in the family library. -
Her personal life.
Jane agreed to marry Harris Bigg-Wither, the 21-year-old heir of a Hampshire family, but the next morning she changed her mind and like her older sister Cassandra, she didn't get married. -
Chawton
Her family and her moved to Chawton, after the death of her father. In this small town, she wrote many of her novels. -
Sense and Sensibilty.
The novel is focused on the story of the Dashwood sisters and their love affairs, but it is characterized by the realism that Jane uses in it. This novel was the first that she signed with the pseudonym "A LADY" -
Pride and Prejudice.
She began to write it in 1796,but it wasn´t published until 1813. this novel tells the story of the Bennet sisters and theirs love affairs.Especially the story of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy -
Mansfield park.
This novel is the most serious of austen´s novels, it is a discussion of religion and religious duty
The heroine, Fanny Price, is a self-effacing and unregarded cousin cared by the Bertram family -
Emma
This novel tells the story of Emma Woodhouse. Before she began the novel, Austen wrote: "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." -
Date she died.
She dieds in Winchester(UK), where she is buried (in the Cathedral)