Who is Jane Austen?

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, at Steventon Rectory in Hampshire, England. Beginning in her teen years, Austen wrote poems, stories, and comic pieces for the amusement of her family. She compiled several of the pieces she wrote between 1787 and 1793 into three bound notebooks, which scholars now refer to as Austen’s “Juvenalia.” Austen expressed an interest in drama and comedy; she often staged theatrical productions at home with her siblings. While living at Chawton, four of her novels were published anonymously: Sense and Sensibility in 1811, Pride and Prejudice in 1813, Mansfield Park in 1814, and Emma in 1815. In July of 1816, Austen completed the first draft of her next novel, entitled “The Elliots.” It would later be published as Persuasion.  In 1833, publisher Richard Bentley published the first collected edition of Austen’s novels. Since then, her works have been continually in print. Over the past several decades, there have been more than 200 literary adaptations of Austen’s novels, as well as numerous film versions.

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