Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in Hampshire. She was the seventh child. Her father was an intelligent and
sensitive man who encouraged Jane in her love of reading and writing. Jane's fondness of her own father is clearly reflected
in the intimate father-daughter relationships in many of her novels. Jane was schooled by her parents and received a broader
education than many women of her time.
She was very closed to her sister during all her life, this can be also seen in her novels.
In 1801 the family moved to Bath. Jane felt lost because she missed her country life.
In 1809 they moved back to Hampshire and Jane felt happy again. Because of this, in this period she published a lot of novels
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While she was writing her final moment she felt ill because of a tubercular desease.
She died on July 18, 1817, she was forty-one years old.
Although she was never married, Jane's novels offer some of literature's most romantic stories and she is considered one of
the England?s greatest writers.
