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She was born into a middle class family with a lot of culture. Her hometown was Steventon, where she lived for 25 years. Jane Austen was a very famous writer in Great Britain in the 18th century. Her books was famous because of the irony with which they were written. -
In the 1780s, she was educated at home. From a young age, she was interested in reading and writing, as her family had a library and there was a great intellectual atmosphere in her home.
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She and her family decided to move to a new city, Bath. This marked a major change in her life. During this period she leave for a time the writing to dedicated all her time to her family. -
Because of the death of her father, her mom, her sister and she, had to rely on the support of other family members for a long period of time. Her father died in Bath, UK. -
The first book that Jane published was "Sense and Sensibility" It tells the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who, after the death of their father, are forced to leave the family estate and move with their mother and younger sister to a country house in rural Devonshire. -
her most famous book was "Pride and Prejudice". It was one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel. It It tells the story of an ambitious mother who tries to marry off her five daughters as soon as possible. Jane, the eldest and most beautiful, seems to have the best chance with the rich and charming bachelor Bingley. -
She died young, at the age of 41, on 18 July 1817, after an illness thought to be either lupus or cancer. She dies in Winchester, United Kingdom