Jane Austen the daughter of a clergyman was born in Hampshire in 1775 and later lived in
Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager she wrote brilliantly witty stories
for her family's amusement as well as a novella Lady Susan. Her first published novel was
Sense and Sensibility which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died in 1817 and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were
published posthumously in 1818.
