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  • NAME: Jane Austen
  • OCCUPATION: Writer
  • BIRTH DATE: December 16, 1775
  • DEATH DATE: July 18, 1817
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Steventon, Hampshire, England
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Winchester, Hampshire, England
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Jane Austen was an English writer best known for Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma.

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One of the most celebrated English authors, Jane Austen expressed the comedic manners and romances of middle-class life in England. Despite the fact that Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma garnered little praise during her lifetime, her brilliantly expressed social commentary cemented her historical importance. Many of her works have been portrayed on stage and screen.

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