Jane Austen Biography

Biography

Type: English novelist

Born: December 16, 1775, Steventon, United Kingdom

Died: July 18, 1817, Winchester, United Kingdom

Hertimeless works – numbering just six completed novels – have been turned into a plethora of motion pictures, television shows and modern adaptations at a regular pace in addition to being translated into multiple languages that help her stories surpass cultural boundaries. These six works have gone on to become the model formula for the romance stories of today. Her novels, including “Pride and Prejudice” and “Sense and Sensibility”, are considered literary classics, bridging the gap between romance and realism. Jane Austen remains as popular as ever and is revered as much as any literary figure in the history of the English language.

List of works:

    Novels:

  • Sense and Sensibility (1811)
  • Pride and Prejudice (1813)
  • Mansfield Park (1814)
  • Emma (1815)
  • Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous)
  • Persuasion (1818, posthumous)

    Short fiction:

  • Lady Susan (1794, 1805)
  • Unfinished fiction:

  • The Watsons (1804)
  • Sanditon (1817)

    Other works:

  • Sir Charles Grandison (adapted play) (1793, 1800)[134]
  • Plan of a Novel (1815)
  • Poems (1796-1817)
  • Prayers (1796-1817)
  • Letters (1796-1817)

Jane Austen Quotes

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You
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
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
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.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.. Jane Austen
If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

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