Jane Austen

 

Jane Austen was an 19th century novelist. Jane Austen, born in Steventon, Hampshire in 1775.She studied at Oxford in 1783 with her relatives help. She continued her education at Southampton. Finally she studied at "Reading, Berkshire Da Abbey", a school for women. She Start writing novels in 1789.

He moved to Southampton after his father died in 1805. In 1809 he moved to Chawton with his rich brother and today the house becomes a museum and a popular tourist destination.

Austen was writing her own stories when she was 12; but she published her firs novel when she is 37.Jane's novels are still popular in this days.In her novels the main character is always a woman and the novel ends with a happy marriage.

Austen, never married.instead of this she lived with her family.

She died of breast cancer on June 18,1817. She was only 41 when she died.

Her Novels

• Sense and Sensibility (1811)
• Pride and Prejudice (1813)
• Mansfield Park (1814)
• Emma (1815)
• Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous)
• Persuasion (1818, posthumous)
• Lady Susan (1871, posthumous)