"It is a truth universally acknowledged,
that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want
of a wife."
These are one of the most famous opening lines in the story of literature. The novel, Pride and Prejudice, was written by Jane Austen 200 hundred years ago. Today it is one of
the novels which sells more copies in the UK and is studied and read all over
the world.
Jane Austen
- Jane Austen (1775-1817) was one of eight children in a close-knit family
- Born on 16 December 1775 in the village of Steventon in Hampshire
- In 1801 the family moved to Bath
- After the death of her father, the family moved several times, eventually settling in Chawton, Hampshire
- Her brother Henry negotiated with a publisher for her first novel, Sense and Sensibility
- She described her next, Pride and Prejudice, as her "own darling child"
- In 1816 Austen began to suffer from ill-health, thought to be Addison's disease. She died in Winchester a year later, aged 41
- Her legacy was six celebrated novels, which offered insight into the lives of middle- and upper-class women in the early 19th Century
- Source: BBC History
Click here to read an interesting article about the way her fans celebrate this important anniversary.
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