![]() ![]() From her teenage years into her thirties she experimented with various literary forms, including an epistolary novel which she then abandoned, wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. Her realism, biting irony and social commentary as well as her acclaimed plots have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.Īusten lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. Jane Austen (/ˈdʒeɪn ˈɔːstən/ 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. ![]()
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