(1775-1817)
Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 at the rectory in the Hampshire village of Steventon to the Reverend George Austen and his wife, Cassandra. Jane, the seventh of eight children, had six brothers and one elder sister, Cassandra.
She didn't travel and before the end of her life she didn't get married, though she received a lot of proposals.
One hundred years later the house was bought by Mr. T. Edward Carpenter in memory of his son, Philip, who was killed in the Second World War. He founded the Jane Austen Memorial Trust and owned and administered the house that was first opened as a museum in 1949.
Later in 1816 she became ill and in May 1817 Cassandra and she rented rooms in Winchester to be near to her physician. There was no cure for the illness and she died on July 1817. She was buried in Winchester Cathedral.
There are many film adaptations by Jane Austen's novels. One of them is “Sense and Sensibility”.
Jane Austen's novels: Sense and Sensibility (1811) Pride & Prejudice (1813) Mansfield Park (1814) Emma (1816) Northanger Abbey (1817) and Persuasion (1817) – posthumous.
The English writer who first gave the novel a modern character by making in him everyday life.
Still considered The « First Lady » of English literature.
According to a survey of modern authors who write romance novels, her book « Pride and prejudice » is the best novel of this genre of all times and peoples.
Her novel « Sanditon » was recognized as one of the ten major lost works, which lost world literature. She started writing it a few months before her death did not have time to finish.
