Little biographical information about Jane Austen's life exists except the few letters that survived and the biographical notes her family members wrote. During her lifetime, Austen may have written as many as 3,000 letters, but only

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Family
Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, on 16 December 1775. She was born a month later

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Like many women authors at the time, Austen published her books anonymously. At the time, the ideal roles for a woman were as wife and mother, and writing for women was regarded at best as a secondary form of activity; a woman who wished to be a full-time

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Austen's works critique the sentimental novels of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. The earliest English novelists,

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Contemporaneous responses
As Austen's works were published anonymously, they brought her little personal renown. They

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Austen is on the £10 note which was introduced in 2017, replacing Charles Darwin.

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In the months after Austen's death in July 1817, Cassandra, Henry Austen and Murray arranged for the publication of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey as a set. Henry Austen

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