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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 · 9,108,420 ratings · 347,127 reviews · 4,103 distinct works • Similar authors
Pride and Prejudice
4.30 avg rating — 4,903,717 ratings — published 1813 — 17472 editions
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Sense and Sensibility
4.09 avg rating — 1,315,204 ratings — published 1811 — 7615 editions
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Emma
4.05 avg rating — 1,002,376 ratings — published 1815 — 8412 editions
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Persuasion
4.15 avg rating — 793,152 ratings — published 1817 — 7973 editions
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Northanger Abbey
3.85 avg rating — 462,786 ratings — published 1817 — 6222 editions
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Mansfield Park
3.86 avg rating — 384,683 ratings — published 1814 — 5176 editions
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Lady Susan
3.67 avg rating — 54,539 ratings — published 1871 — 2 editions
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The Complete Novels
4.57 avg rating — 34,117 ratings — published 1981 — 258 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
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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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