“I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.”
About Jane Austen
16 December 1775–18 July 1817
Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon, Hampshire, into a family whose modest circumstances, intellectual liveliness, and close emotional bonds supplied the material conditions for an extraordinary literary education. She was the seventh of eight children born to the Reverend George Austen and Cassandra…