Jane Austen

British author, 1775-1817.

Jane Austen stands as a model of the writer whose sheltered life did nothing to reduce her fiction. Her novels are conventional in form and in their middle-class assumptions about the needs and desires of young British men and women in 1800. But they are keenly drawn, sharp with insight and possessed of a remarkable and durable charm.

Her novels are:

• Sense and Sensibility, published 1811
  
• Pride and Prejudice, published 1813
  
• [Mansfield Park]?, published 1814
  
• Emma?, published 1815
  
• Persuasion, published 1817
  
• [Northanger Abbey]?, published 1817

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