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Jane Austen’s life is a testimony of both the obstacles faced by female writers of the eighteenth century and the societal pressure for marriage during the time. Born on December 16, 1775 in Steventon, England, Austen showed promise of becoming a writer at a young age for as a child, she wrote short stories and plays for her family. In her twenties and thirties, she began writing novels, such as Sense and Sensibility (1811) andPride and Prejudice (1813). While Austen struggled to get her works published as a female writer, she demonstrated persistence by continuing to write and pursue publication. More significantly, Austen defied eighteenth and early nineteenth century societal expectations for women through her career as a writer and life as a single woman.

Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, on 16 December 1775. For much of Jane’s life, her father, George Austen (1731–1805) served as the rector of the Anglican parishes at Steventon, and a nearby Deane. He

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Jane Austen (1775-1817)

The Anti-Romantic?

Biography

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 and into a middle-class family in Steventon, Hampshire. She was the seventh of eight children born to Rev. George Austen and his wife Cassandra.

Austen was taught briefly by Mrs. Cawley in 1783, and later, accompanied her sister to the Abbey Boarding School in Reading from 1785-1786 (Pemberley); Aside from one year of formal schooling, she was educated at home. Her father’s library consisted of about 500 books, which she regularly perused, and reputedly, she was particularly fond of works by Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Fanny Burney (Biography, Pemberley) and William Cowper (Literature Post).

Austen started writing at an early age and completed her first novel, Love and Friendship, at age 14 (JASA). The book was succeeded by A History of England by a partial, prejudiced and ignorant Historian (JASA), which was never published. Although her father greatly encouraged and s

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Jane Austen Biography

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