What you need to know about Jane Austen | Great Writers Series | Shall We Read

Jane Austen was born in Hampshire, England in 1775. Her early years collided with a turbulent and tumultuous time in history when revolutions were brewing and the Napoleonic War would shake up the continent of Europe. As the second youngest child among her 7 siblings and as a girl in rural, upper class England, Austen’s formal education concluded when she was 9. But this did not stop her from finishing the first draft of Sense and Sensibility in 1796 and Pride and Prejudice in 1797. Quite the relentless writer, Austen went on to finish writing Northanger Abbey in 1798 before her family moved to Bath. In 1811, as Sense and Sensibility published anonymously, there was a great shift of power in Europe, marked by the start of the British Regency and the ongoing Napoleonic War. Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park were published in 1813 and 1814 respectively and she wrote Persuasion in 1815. At the time, Austen was suffering from Addison’s disease and she died in 1817. Regretfully, her writing career came to an end when Northanger Abbey and Persuasion published anonymously and posthumously in the year of 1818.
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