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Jane Austen


Born
in Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, England
December 16, 1775

Died
July 18, 1817

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Genre
Fiction, Romance, Humor and Comedy

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Frances Burney, Mary Brunton, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Mari ...more


Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works are an implicit critique of the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her deft use of social commentary, realism and biting irony have earned her acclaim among critics and scholars.

The anonymously published Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816), were a modest success but br ...more

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Average rating: 4.18 · 9,318,050 ratings · 365,046 reviews · 4,565 distinct works • Similar authors
Pride and Prejudice
4.30 avg rating — 5,020,682 ratings — published 1813 — 16169 editions
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Sense and Sensibility
4.09 avg rating — 1,343,344 ratings — published 1811 — 7131 editions
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Emma
4.05 avg rating — 1,025,303 ratings — published 1815 — 7872 editions
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Persuasion
4.15 avg rating — 811,953 ratings — published 1817 — 98 editions
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Northanger Abbey
3.85 avg rating — 472,920 ratings — published 1817 — 5853 editions
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Mansfield Park
3.86 avg rating — 390,678 ratings — published 1814 — 4917 editions
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Lady Susan
3.67 avg rating — 56,212 ratings — published 1871 — 2410 editions
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The Complete Novels
4.57 avg rating — 34,237 ratings — published 1981 — 64 editions
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Love and Freindship
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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“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.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
tags: friendship, love
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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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