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Place of Birth
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Steventon, Hampshire, England
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Known for
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Exploring themes of marriage, family, and everyday country life in witty novels with strong heroines
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Milestones
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1790s Began writing brief fictional pieces, including the burlesque 'Love and Freindship' [sic] and the short novel Lady Susan |
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1804 Began writing The Watsons around this time
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1811 Published, at her own expense, the novel Sense and Sensibility, which was based on a story she began in the late 1790s titled 'Elinor and Marianne'
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1813 Published the novel Pride and Prejudice, the story of the Bennet sisters' pursuit of marriage
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1814 Published the novel Mansfield Park |
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1816 Published the novel Emma |
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1817 Began work on the novel Sanditon, which she did not finish before her death
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1818 The novels Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously.
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Quote
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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.' Pride and Prejudice, ch. 1 (1813)
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Did You Know
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Austen received little formal education, was tutored at home by her father, and lived with her family throughout her life.
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Austen's novels were originally published anonymously.
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Austen never left the south of England and had little or no contact with the literary community of London.
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Although her work received positive reviews, she was not a popular novelist during her lifetime.
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