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Jane Austen´s Biography

Jane Austen came into the world on December 16th, 1775. Born to Reverend George Austen of the Steventon rectory and Cassandra Austen of the Leigh family. She was to betheir seventh child and only the second daughter to the couple. In order of birth, the Austen children were as follows: James, Edward, Henry, Cassandra, Francis, George, Jane and Charles. Of all thebrothers, it would be Henry to which Jane would form the closest bond with, playing the part of Jane's literary agent in the later stages of her writing.

In 1783, at the age of 8, Jane and her sisterCassandra were sent off to boarding school for their formal educations. Education would consist of the appropriate teachings of the time, which included foreign language (mainly French), music anddancing. As Mr. Austen was part of the church, he kept a large collection of literature in his home library. This library was open to Jane and Cassandra as well and the two made extensive use of it inboth reading and writing endeavors, with Jane taking the lead in both. Mr. Austen fed Jane's interest in writing by supplying his books, paper and writing tools to allow her to explore her creativeside.
In 1787 Jane start taking more of an interest in generating her own works and keeping them in notebooks for future reference. These collections consisted of stories and poems that became theJuvenilia and made up three whole notebooks. By 1789, Jane penned the dark, satirical comedy “Love and Friendship”, and began to lean towards writing seriously. Four years time would see her delve into playwriting in the form of Sir Charles Garandison or the Happy Man, a comedy centered around the works she was forced to read in schools and consisted of six full acts. Unfortunately, the idea fell tonaught and was abandoned for another idea that later became Susan, a novel told in the epistolary format - that is, a story told as a series of letters. Sometime before 1796, members of the Austen...