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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 · 9,051,249 ratings · 342,247 reviews · 3,926 distinct works • Similar authors
Pride and Prejudice
4.30 avg rating — 4,871,527 ratings — published 1813 — 17448 editions
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Sense and Sensibility
4.09 avg rating — 1,308,926 ratings — published 1811 — 255 editions
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Emma
4.05 avg rating — 995,784 ratings — published 1815 — 5529 editions
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Persuasion
4.15 avg rating — 787,711 ratings — published 1817 — 7970 editions
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Northanger Abbey
3.85 avg rating — 459,835 ratings — published 1817 — 6220 editions
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Mansfield Park
3.86 avg rating — 383,039 ratings — published 1814 — 5172 editions
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Lady Susan
3.66 avg rating — 54,038 ratings — published 1871 — 22 editions
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The Complete Novels
4.57 avg rating — 34,081 ratings — published 1981 — 258 editions
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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
tags: books, library, reading
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