Jane Austen was one of the most famous novelists in English literature. She was born on 16th December,1775, in the south of England.
She started writing at the age of 12. She wrote plays, short stories and
Poems between 1787 and 1793. She began her first novel, Sense and Sensibility
In about 1795.
Between October 1796 and August 1797, Austen completed Pride and prejudice.
In the same year, her father sent her to London publisher, but he did not reply. In
1801,the Austen family moved to Bath, a town in the west of England, but Jane did not go with them. For eight years, she lived in different towns, including southampton on the south coast, from 1805 to 1809. In the same year, her brother Edwaerd, gave her a house in Chawton, near the town of her birth.
Sense and Sensibility appeared in 1811 and was a success. After two years, Pride and prejudice appeared, and she was famous. The king of England liked her novels. At 41,Jane became ill. She continued writing, but she died a year later, on July 18th ,1817.