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Author
Jane Austen
author, novelist, writer (1775–1817)
Their life
Jane Austen was an English writer, born on 16 December 1775 and dying on 18 July 1817. She is known mainly for six novels that examine the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Her plots often focus on how women depended on marriage to secure social standing and financial stability. Her novels also work as quiet criticisms of the sentimental novels popular in the second half of the 18th century, and they helped move fiction toward 19th-century realism. Critics and scholars have praised her social observation, realism, wit, and irony.
Austen wrote her major novels before she turned 22, but her first publication did not come until she was 35. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma appeared anonymously between 1811 and 1815 and sold moderately well, though they did not bring her fame during her lifetime. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously in 1817. She left unfinished Sanditon, along with the short epistolary novel Lady Susan, the unfinished The Watsons, and three volumes
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