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An English novelist. December 16, 1775 to July 18, 1817

4. Dec 16, 1775: Jane Austen Born
Jane Austen is born in Steventon, England. She is the
seventh of eight children born to William and Cassandra
Austen, and one of only two daughters. Throughout her
life, her older sister, also named Cassandra after her
mother, is her closest friend.
1783:First Schooling
Cassandra and Jane Austen are sent to Oxford, England to
be educated by a private tutor named Ann Cawley. Both
girls contract typhoid fever during an outbreak and return
home to Steventon.

5. 1785:Boarding School
Austen enrolls in boarding school at Abbey School in
Reading.
1786Home School
The family's money runs out and Austen returns to
Steventon from boarding school. The rest of her education
is completed at home from her father's voluminous library.
Austen lives with her parents and sister for the rest of her
life.

6. 1793: LADY SUSAN
This is an early complete work that the author never
submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the
main character she seeks a new husband for herself, and
one for her daughter. Although the theme, together with
the focus on character study and moral issues, is close to
Austen's published work its outlook is very different, and
the heroine has few parallels in 19th century literature. She
is a selfish woman, highly attractive to men, who tries to
trap the best possible husband while maintaining a
relationship with a married man. She subverts all the
standards of the romantic novel, she is not only beautiful
but witty, and her suitors are significantly younger than
she is. Lady Susan herself is treated more leniently than
the adulteress in Mansfield Park, who is severely punished.
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7. Dec 1795: Austen's First "Love"
Austen meets Tom LeFroy, an Irish law student who is the
nephew of her neighbor. Austen and LeFroy spend time
together during his month-long visit to Steventon. He
leaves in January 1796 and soon becomes engaged to
someone else, ending whatever relationship they had.
Austen writes affectionately of LeFroy to her
sister, prompting later speculation that he is the real-life
inspiration for her male characters.

8. Aug 1797: PUFFIN CLASSICS : PRIDE & PREJUDICE
First Novel Attempt
Austen completes the first draft of First Impressions, the
novel that later becomes Pride and Prejudice. It was first
published in 1813. The story follows the main
character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues
of manners, upbringing, morality, etc in the society of
the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth
is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman
living near the fictional town of Meryton near London.
Though the story is set at the turn of the 19th century, it
retains a fascination for modern readers, continuing near
the top of lists of "most loved books" . It has become one
of the most popular novels in English literature.
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9. 1801: Austen Family Moves to Bath
Austen moves with her parents to the resort town of
Bath, England, after her father's retirement from clergy.
Dec 2, 1802: An Indecent Proposal
Just before her 27th birthday, Jane Austen receives her only
marriage proposal. A recent Oxford grad named Harris Bigg-
Wither proposes to Austen while she is visiting his sisters.
Realizing that the marriage would be good for her family's
circumstances, Austen accepts. The next morning, however, she
changes her mind and withdraws her acceptance. Bigg-Wither
marries two years later; Austen never does.

10. 1803: Thwarted Novel
Austen sells a novel called Susan to a publisher for £10. But the
book is never published, and Austen's family later buys back the
rights to the work.
Jan 21, 1805: Austen Falls on Hard Times
Jane's father William George Austen dies, leaving his wife and
sisters financially dependent on his sons. The Austen women first
rent a house in Bath, then move in with Jane's brother Frank and
his wife.
Jul 7, 1809: Chawton Cottage
Jane and Cassandra Austen and their mother move into Chawton
Cottage, a home on an estate owned by their brother Edward.

11. OCT 1811: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
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Sense and Sensibility appeared in 1811 under the
pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, better
known as a comedy of manners, Sense and Sensibility is set
in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and
portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood
sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young
ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant
relative's property, where they experience love, romance
and heartbreak. The philosophical resolution of the novel
is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and
sensibility have truly merged.

12. MAY 1814: MANSFIELD PARK
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It is the most controversial of Austen's major novels.
Regency critics praised the novel's wholesome
morality, but many modern readers find Fanny's timidity
and disapproval of the theatricals difficult to sympathise
with and reject the idea that she is a better person for the
relative privations of her childhood. Jane Austen's own
mother thought Fanny "insipid", and many other readers
have found her priggish and unlikeable. Other critics point
out that she is a complex personality, perceptive yet given
to wishful thinking, and that she shows courage and grows
in self-esteem during the latter part of the story.
The story contains much social satire, targeted particularly
at the two aunts.

13. Nov 1815: An Awkward Request
The librarian of the Prince Regent (later King
George IV), a big fan of Austen's work, invites her
to the prince's London home and suggests that
she dedicate her soon-to-be-published book to
him. Austen is not a fan of the prince, but is
unable to say no. Emma is published the next
month with a dedication to the prince. It is the
last novel published in her lifetime.

14. DEC 1815: EMMA
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The official TV tie-in edition to the new four-part BBC1
adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma. Emma is
wealthy, beautiful, accomplished and a self-proclaimed
matchmaker. When Emma meets Harriet Smith, a young
girl of unknown parentage, Emma is convinced she can
find Harriet a suitable husband. But, in her quest to find
Harriet the perfect match, Emma jeopardizes Harriet's
happiness and, much to her surprise, her own happiness
too. The much-loved Austen novel has been given a fresh
look by award-winning writer Sandy Welch. With well-
known actors taking the title roles -- Romola Garai and
Jonny Lee Miller are Emma and Mr. Knightley -- this
promises to be a very special and enduring adaptation.

15. 1816: Austen Falls Ill
Austen begins to feel the first signs of a long, progressive
illness that saps her energy. She continues to work on two
novels, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, but is delayed
by her illness and by financial troubles caused by the
failure of her brother Henry's bank.
May 1817: Death Draws Near
A bed-ridden Jane and Cassandra Austen move to Winchester in
order to be closer to Austen's doctor.
Jul 18, 1817: Jane Austen Dies
Jane Austen dies at the age of 41. She is buried in Winchester
Cathedral.

16. DEC 1817: PERSUASION
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Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something
we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life
get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be
persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man
she loved wasn't an adequate match, social
stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel
opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau
packing, and she's still alone. But then the guy she never
stopped loving comes back from the sea. As
always, Austen's storytelling is so confident, you can't help
but allow yourself to be taken on the enjoyable journey

17. DEC 1817: NORTHANGER ABBEY
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Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest
novels, it was not published until after her death--well
after she'd established her reputation with works such as
Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. the
novel is modeled after the day's popular romances and
Gothic thrillers, which it then proceeds to ridicule. The
heroine is Catherine Morland, who encounters upper-crust
society at Bath, falls in love, and becomes targeted by
misinformed fortune-seekers. After moving to Northanger
Abbey, her imagination goes to work and dreams up
mysteries that lead to various social disasters.

18. 1869: Legacy Revived
Austen's nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh publishes a
biography of his aunt entitled A Memoir of Jane Austen.
The memoir sparks renewed interest in the writer.
1883: Austenolatry
The first popular editions of Austen's novels are
published, sparking Austen fandom that continues to this
day. Critic (and father of Virginia Woolf) Leslie Stephens
calls her rabid following "Austenolatry."

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