Below are a few interesting points on Jane Austen’s life and career:
- Born December 16, 1775 at Steventon rectory in north Hampshire, England.
- At the age of eight she was sent to a boarding school in Oxford with her sister, but caught typhus and returned home. She attended a boarding school again when she was ten, but only for a year. From age 11 Austen was home-schooled and self-taught.
- Died on July 18, 1817, at the age of 42. Historians disagree whether she died of cancer, tuberculosis, or complications from her bout with typhus as a child.
- Austen wrote six novels along with an assortment of short stories and poems. Two novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were both published posthumously in 1818.
- Her works were admired by King George IV.