Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist whose six major novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, critically and comically examined the lives and morals of the British landed gentry.
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Background
- Born in
- Steventon
- Educated at
- Bournemouth UniversityReading Abbey Girls' School
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Trending topics shown first"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"
"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"
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1775
Born
Birth1817
Died
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