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Jane Austen Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works can fully show life in England. She is not a productive writer—she simply has six books published including two published posthumously. But her works are appreciated highly and gain the affection of scholars and famous people, for instance, the Prince Regent. She devoted in romantic fiction but she was never married, which makes everyone sentimental. This paper will narrate Jane’s whole life in chronological order. It will helpful for knowing more about her and comprehending her works. Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 in Steventon, Hampshirelived. Her family is landed gentry and she had six brothers and one sister among which she had a good relationship with the two years elder sister, Cassandra Elizabeth Austen. Her father, Rev. George Austen was the rector of Deane parish at that time. He was born in a woolen manufacturers’ family. Her mother, Cassandra, came from substantial gentry families. In 1783, their parents sent Jane and Cassandra to Oxford to be educated. Unfortunately, they both caught typhus and Jane suffered a lot. During this time, Jane learned private theatricals. She watched some plays and later acted in them. Maybe it is the experience of this period of life that cultivated her writing style—comedic and satirical. In December 1786, because of financial factor, two girls went back home. The good family environment made it possible for them to learn themselves at home. In 1787, she began to show her writing talents and to write some poets, stories and plays. Later, she compiled Juvenilia, containing these pieces of work between 1787 and 1793. In 1791, The History of England was finished. The book was the combination of two Austen girls. Jane wrote in early her fifteen while Cassandran gave full play to her drawing skills. In 1793, Jane began the play, Sir Charles Grandison or the happy Man, a comedy in 6 acts, then abandoned. It was between 1793 and 1795 that she wrote the epistola