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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.
This extract is taken from
John Lauber, Jane Austen [New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993]
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