![]() Early WritingĪfter her return from boarding school, Jane likely began writing. Phila thought Cassandra delightful, but Jane 'not at all pretty', 'whimsical & affected', and altogether too noisy. In the summer of 1788 the girls visited their father's uncle and patron, Francis Austen. After that, the sisters learned from her father and his impressive library. In 1785 they were sent to a boarding school in Reading, Abbey House School, but the family could only finance their attendance for one year. When the girls caught typhoid fever, they were brought home. In 1783 (Jane was eight, Cassandra ten), the girls were sent to Oxford to live with their cousin and be tutored by Ann Cawley, widow of a Brasenose principal. ![]() In 1801 her father retired and they moved to Bath. Cassandra and Jane had a relationship not unlike her sister characters Jane and Elizabeth or Elinor and Marianne: that of both best friends and confidantes. She had seven siblings: six brothers (five older, one younger), and an older sister, Cassandra. Jane Austen was born into a family of lower gentry in Hampshire, where her father was Rector of Steventon. ![]() ![]() Her next published novel, Pride and Prejudice, was 'By the Author of Sense and Sensibility. Her first novel to be published, Sense and Sensibility, was simply 'By a Lady'. Jane Austen, via Wikimedia Commonsīut the irony of our obsession with Jane Austen the woman is that during her lifetime, her works were all published anonymously. ![]()
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