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Jane Austen
From Annie
Born 16 December 1775
Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, England
Died 18 July 1817 (aged 41)
Winchester, Hampshire, England
Resting place Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire, England
Period 1787 to 1809-1811
Genres Romance
Signature
A watercolour and pencil sketch of Austen, believed to have been drawn from life by her sister Cassandra
Family
Early life and education
Adulthood
Illness and death
List of work
Early novels
Austen's parents, e Austen (1731–1805), and his wife Cassandra (1739–1827), were members of substantial gentry families.
e was descended from a family of woollen manufacturers, which had risen through the professions to the lower ranks of the landed gentry.[12] Cassandra was a member of the prominent Leigh family.
From 1765 until 1801, that is, for much of Jane's life, e Austen served as the rector of the Anglican parishes at Steventon, Hampshire,[14] and a nearby village. From 1773 until 1796, he supplemented this e by farming and by teaching three or four boys at a time who boarded at his home.
e Austen
Cassandra Austen
James1765-1819
e1766-1838
Edward1779-1852
Henry Thomas1771-1850
Francis Wiliam1774-1865
Charles John1779-1852
Cassandra Elizebeth1773-1845
Jane1775-1817
Cassandra was Austen's closest friend and confidante throughout her life
a banker and,after his bank failed, an Anglican clergyman. literary agent, he provided Austen with a view of social worlds not normally visible from a small parish in rural Hampshire.
sent to live with a local family at a young age , as Austen biographer Le Faye describes it, "mentally abnormal and subject to fits". He may also have been deaf and mute.
served in the navy, both rising to the rank of admiral.
adopted
Early life and education
born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon rectory and publicly christened on 5 April 1776.
In 1783,sent to Oxford to be educated By December 1786, but returned home because the Austens could not afford to send both of their daughte