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Jane Austen

1775–1817 · 19th century

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose six major novels, including Pride and Prejudice (1813), Sense and Sensibility, Emma and Persuasion, portray the lives and marriages of the landed gentry with irony and wit. Published anonymously in her lifetime, they have become some of the most widely read works in English literature.

Jane Austen
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