Jane Austen
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born
December 16, 1775
died
July 18, 1817
gender
female
place of birth
Steventon, Hampshire, England, The United Kingdom
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
Jane Austen was an English writer. Although Austen was widely read in her lifetime, she published her works anonymously. The most urgent preoccupations of her bright, young heroines are courtship and marriage. Austen herself never married. Her best-known books include PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1813) and EMMA (1816). Virginia Woolf called Austen "the most perfect artist among women."
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen avg rating 4.28 — 166,271 ratings — published 1813 708 editions |
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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen avg rating 4.08 — 75,151 ratings — published 1811 379 editions |
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Emma by Jane Austen avg rating 4.00 — 33,956 ratings — published 1386 342 editions |
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Persuasion by Jane Austen avg rating 4.14 — 24,184 ratings — published 1818 300 editions |
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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen avg rating 3.74 — 19,647 ratings — published 1814 239 editions |
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen avg rating 3.65 — 15,216 ratings — published 1818 231 editions |
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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen avg rating 4.66 — 1,376 ratings — published 1933 52 editions |
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen avg rating 3.80 — 1,407 ratings — published 1818 6 editions |
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Lady Susan by Jane Austen avg rating 3.41 — 881 ratings — published 1871 73 editions |
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Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen avg rating 3.54 — 791 ratings — published 1974 9 editions |
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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
— Jane Austen
— Jane Austen
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
— Jane Austen
— Jane Austen
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