Jane Austen

Austen, Jane (1775–1817) Novelist,
born in the rectory at Steventon, Hampshire, the sixth child in a family of seven. Her father, the Revd George Austen, was a cultivated man, comfortably prosperous, who taught Jane and encouraged her both in her reading and her writing.

Austen, Jane (1775–1817),
arguably the most important English novelist of this period, whose modest contemporary popular success developed into widespread critical, institutional, and popular acclaim in the late nineteenth century.