An Austen Chronology

1775: Jane Austen born at village of Steventon, England, to George and Cassandra Austen.
1785-1787: With her sister, Cassandra, Austen attends the Abbey School in Reading, England.
1790-93: Writes her juvenilia.
1795-98: Writes original versions of Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.
1797: "First Impressions" (original version of Pride and Prejudice) rejected by a London publisher.
1801: Father retires and moves to Bath with his wife and daughters.
1803: Susan (original version of Northanger Abbey) is bought by a publisher but never issued.
1804: Austen begins, and quickly abandons, "The Watsons."
1805: Death of father, George.
1808: Moves to Southampton with mother and sister.
1809-17: Lives with her mother and sister in a small house provided by her wealthy brother Edward in the village of Chawton, in southern England. Begins revising original versions of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.
1811: Sense and Sensibility published.
1813: Pride and Prejudice published.
1814: Mansfield Park published. Austen begins work on Emma.
1816: Emma is published and is dedicated to the Prince Regent (future George IV) at his request. Austen completes Persuasion.
1817: Composes the fragment "Sanditon"; abandons it because of incapacitating illness. Austen is moved to Winchester for medical care in May and dies there on 18 July. Buried in Winchester Cathedral on 24 July.
1818: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion published jointly in a four-volume edition, with a biographical preface of Austen by her brother Henry.

Jane´s Biography