Jane Austen

Jane Austen (1775–1817) was born at Steventon, Hampshire, the seventh of eight children of a country clergyman, and spent her life in the south of England — Steventon, Bath, Southampton and finally Chawton, where she revised and wrote the six novels on which her reputation rests: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), and, posthumously, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1817). All were published anonymously in her lifetime. She died at Winchester at forty-one.