Jane Austen was an English novelist who was born on 16th December 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire. She was basically known for her six novels which she wrote on British landed gentry in the 18th Century. Austen and her sister Cassandra were sent to Oxford for education in the year 1783. Both the girls were sent beck home in the autumn as they both caught typhus (Fever). Jane was nearly to death at that time. For some time Jane was educated at home itself. In the year 1785, both the sisters were sent to Reading Abbey Girls School which was a boarding school. French, spelling, needle work, dancing and music, and drama were included in the curriculum of the school. by the end of 1786 in the month of December, both girls returned home as their parents couldn’t afford the fees for a longer time. After that Austen never lived outside the boundaries of her house.
At the age of 11, Austen started writing poems and stories just for the sake of fun and amusement of her family members. All these works of her described the struggles and details of daily life and some of these were also about female power, illicit behaviour etc. Later, she complied fair copies of twenty nine works of her into three bound notebooks which were known as Juvenilia. Juvenilia contains works written by her from 1787 to 1793. These three notebooks were named “Volume the first”, “Volume the second” and “Volume the third”. In these volumes, 90,000 words were preserved which she wrote during these years.
Sense and Sensibility was her first novel published in the year 1811, which she read to her family early in the year 1796 through a series of letters. She started writing her next novel in the year 1796 and completed it by august 1797 which was named by her as “First Impressions”(Later published as Pride and Prejudice). This novel of hers was published in the year 1813. Mansfield Park was published in the year 1814, and Emma in the year 1816. Two more additional novels were written by her named Northanger Abbey and Persuasion and published in the year 1818. After this she began writing Sanditon but died before even completing it.
Jane Austen died in the year 1817 on 18th July at the young age of 41.
