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Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English writer known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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culture · English novelist (1775–1817) · writer · short story writer · novelist · satirical novelist · also Jane Austen, Austen

Born 16 December 1775 · Died 18 July 1817 · Q36322

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very gentlemanlike, good-looking, pleasant young man
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The day will come on which I flirt my last with Tom Lefroy and when you receive this it will be all over. My tears flow as I write at this melancholy idea
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Aug 20, 2026Documented record76% confidence

“very gentlemanlike, good-looking, pleasant young man”

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Aug 20, 2026Documented record76% confidence

“The day will come on which I flirt my last with Tom Lefroy and when you receive this it will be all over. My tears flow as I write at this melancholy idea”

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Aug 19, 2026Documented record69% confidence

El Horizonte: Julie Andrews vuelve al universo de Jane Austen y narrará 'Emma'

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Aug 19, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Variety: Julie Andrews to Narrate Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’ for Noiser Podcast Network (EXCLUSIVE)

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Aug 18, 2026Documented record69% confidence

City of West Hollywood: City of West Hollywood Presents Free Theatre in the Parks: Impro Theatre’s ‘Jane Austen UnScripted’

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Aug 18, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Reality Blurb: PHOTOS: Southern Charm’s Austen Kroll Debuts New Smile After Veneers and Invisalign Transformation, See Before and After Pics

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Aug 16, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Danielle Binks | Substack: Please - somebody - give me a good, new Jane Austen 'Persuasion' adaptation, I beg.

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Aug 16, 2026Documented record69% confidence

tvguide.co.uk: Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait? on BBC Four HD: full details and when it's on

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Aug 16, 2026Documented record69% confidence

quever.news: La encantadora comedia romántica que pocos conocen y enamorará a cualquier fanático de Jane Austen

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Aug 16, 2026Documented record69% confidence

State of the Art Media: Review: The Complete Works of Jane Austen (Abridged), Genesian Theatre

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Aug 16, 2026Documented record69% confidence

The Daily Tar Heel: Column: I learned about rest in Jane Austen’s house

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Aug 16, 2026Documented record69% confidence

The Daily Tar Heel: Third annual Austen program celebrates “Emma”

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Aug 16, 2026Documented record69% confidence

EL PAÍS Uruguay: Jane Austen vive, lucha y enamora: la actualidad de la eterna puja entre naturaleza humana y normas sociales

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Aug 15, 2026Documented record69% confidence

mirror.co.uk: 'Visually stunning' period drama perfect for Jane Austen fans is on Netflix

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Aug 14, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Mshale: Jane Austen 250th Anniversary Block Of The Month - Block 1 Chawton Block Rory Mcilroy Pga Championship Preparation (pvXjRGMDfO)

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Aug 13, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Yahoo News UK: Cast announced for reimagining of Jane Austen novel coming to playhouse

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Aug 13, 2026Documented record69% confidence

The Low Down - Momentum Works: Why was Jane Austen’s Darcy rational instead of proud? - The Low Down

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Aug 12, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Atlanta Jewish Times: ‘Bridgerton’ Meets ‘Jane Austen’ at The Temple

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Aug 12, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Rogue Valley Times: Theater Review: OSF’s ‘Emma’ slightly flawed but captures Austen’s wit, charm

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Aug 11, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Infobae: Por qué aún se desconoce de qué murió Jane Austen

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Aug 11, 2026Documented record69% confidence

So Sumi: Review: Jane Austen’s powers ramp up in Northanger Abbey

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Aug 11, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Battersea Power Station: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen at Arches Lane Theatre

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Aug 11, 2026Documented record69% confidence

lompocrecord.com: Cabrillo High teacher chosen as Teacher Scholar for 2026 Jane Austen Summer Program

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Aug 11, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Mshale: Jane Austen 250th Anniversary Block Of The Month - Block 7 London Myanmar (j1XwjOZqs3)

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Aug 11, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Mshale: Jane Austen 250th Anniversary Block Of The Month - Set To Sew George Furbank (lJVkz9luCR)

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Aug 11, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Daily Express: 'Wonderful' BBC Jane Austen-inspired period drama '10 times better than Downton Abbey'

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2021· 1 entry

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fact checker rated the claim “Cancel culture and “woke fanatics” have come for Jane Austen.” fake.

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2013· 1 entry

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Austen's works featured on a series of British postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail to mark the bicentenary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice

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2007· 1 entry

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By ITV's Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, and in 2016 by Love & Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale as Lady Susan, a film version of Lady Susan, that borrowed the title of Austen's Love and Freindship [s

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1994· 1 entry

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The literary critic Harold Bloom placed Austen among the greatest Western writers of all time

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1953· 1 entry

1953Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

That, given the prevailing rage in France at the time for lush romantic fantasies, it was remarkable that her novels with the emphasis on everyday English life had any sort of a market in France

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1939· 1 entry

1939Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Of Mary Lascelles' Jane Austen and Her Art, the academic study of Austen took hold

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1899· 1 entry

1899Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

When Félix Fénéon translated Northanger Abbey as Catherine Morland

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1895· 1 entry

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Rosina Filippi's Duologues and Scenes from the Novels of Jane Austen: Arranged and Adapted for Drawing-Room Performance, and Filippi was also responsible for the first professional stage adaptation, The Bennets (1901)

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1883· 2 entries

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By George Pellew, a student at Harvard University

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1883Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And fancy illustrated editions and collectors' sets quickly followed

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1869· 3 entries

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And in William and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh's biography Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters, published in 1913, both of which included additional letters

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1869Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Her nephew published A Memoir of Jane Austen

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1869Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Introduced Austen's life story to a wider public as "dear aunt Jane", the respectable maiden aunt

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1833· 1 entry

1833Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

When they were republished in Richard Bentley's Standard Novels series (illustrated by Ferdinand Pickering and sold as a set)

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1832· 1 entry

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Richard Bentley purchased the remaining copyrights to all of her novels, and over the following winter published five illustrated volumes as part of his Standard Novels series

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1823· 1 entry

1823Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

In a letter to the editor in The Lady's Magazine

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1821· 1 entry

1821Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

As La Famille Elliot ou L'Ancienne Inclination

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1817· 5 entries

Jul 18, 1817Documented record86% confidence

Died 1817-07-18.

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c. 1817Exact date was not recorded in the sourceDirect quote68% confidence

“It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.”

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“Opis: o panu Eltonie, którego chciała swatać Emma.”

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

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“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

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1815· 1 entry

1815Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Using it to defend the then-disreputable genre of the novel and praising Austen's realism, "the art of copying from nature as she really exists in the common walks of life, and presenting to the reader, instead of the sp

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1814· 1 entry

1814Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Austen wrote a letter to her niece Fanny Knight, who had asked for advice about a serious relationship, telling her that "having written so much on one side of the question, I shall now turn around & entreat you not to c

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1806· 1 entry

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The family moved to Southampton, where they shared a house with Frank Austen and his new wife

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1805· 1 entry

1805Source gives the year onlyDocumented record72% confidence

Her father, George Austen (1731–1805), wrote of her arrival in a letter that her mother, Cassandra, "certainly expected to have been brought to bed a month ago." He added that the newborn infant was "a present plaything for Cassy and a future companion." The winter of 1775-1776 was particularly harsh, and it was not until 5 April that she was baptised at the local church and christened Jane.

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1804· 1 entry

1804Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

While living in Bath, Austen started, but did not complete, her novel The Watsons

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1786· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1786Documented record84% confidence

Studied at Reading Abbey Girls' School (1785–1786).

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1775· 1 entry

Dec 16, 1775Documented record86% confidence

Born 1775-12-16.

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