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Jane Austen


Born
in Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, England, The United Kingdom
December 16, 1775

Died
July 18, 1817

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Genre
Fiction, Romance, Humor and Comedy

Influences
Frances Burney, Mary Brunton, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Mari ...more


Irony, wit, and meticulous style of noted British writer Jane Austen penetrates and observes middle-class manners and morality; her novels include Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816).

Jane Austen set her English works of romantic fiction among the landed gentry and earned a place as one of the most widely read in literature; her realism and biting social commentary cemented her historical importance among scholars and critics.

Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family, located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. Primarily her father and older brothers as well as her own reading educated her. The critical steadfast support of family developed her as a professional. From her teenage years, her a ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 8,228,305 ratings · 282,816 reviews · 3,103 distinct works • Similar authors
Pride and Prejudice
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Sense and Sensibility
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4.05 avg rating — 888,042 ratings — published 1815 — 7630 editions
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Persuasion
4.15 avg rating — 703,637 ratings — published 1817 — 6944 editions
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Northanger Abbey
3.85 avg rating — 401,815 ratings — published 1817 — 6024 editions
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Mansfield Park
3.86 avg rating — 350,259 ratings — published 1814 — 2356 editions
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Lady Susan
3.65 avg rating — 44,999 ratings — published 1871 — 521 editions
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The Complete Novels
4.57 avg rating — 33,333 ratings — published 1981 — 227 editions
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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