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Novelist · 1775–1817 · Art & Literature
Published four novels anonymously in her lifetime and made the marriage market of the English gentry into a study of money, judgement and self-deception.
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Austen was the seventh of eight children in a Hampshire rectory, educated largely from her father's library. She drafted early versions of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice in her twenties, then wrote almost nothing for a decade of family upheaval and moves. Settled at Chawton in 1809, she revised and published, beginning with Sense and Sensibility in 1811 — the title page said only 'By a Lady'. Her brother Henry handled the negotiations. She earned a modest income and a quiet reputation; the Prince Regent's librarian invited a dedication she supplied with visible reluctance. She died at forty-one, probably of Addison's disease or a lymphoma, with two novels published posthumously.
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You can put that to the Jane Austen persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Jane Austen’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1775–1817, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Jane Austen persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Jane Austen’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1775–1817, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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