Jane Austen
2 min readApr 22, 2021
Biography
(1775-1817), one of England’s foremost novelists, was never publicly acknowledged as a writer during her lifetime.
Austen was born on December 16, 1775, at Steventon Rectory in Hampshire, the seventh child of a country clergyman and his wife, George and Cassandra Austen. Her closest friend was her only sister, Cassandra, almost three years her senior.
