Below is a timeline of the different significant events in Jane Austen's life including when all the novels - Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, The Watsons and Sanditon - were written and when they were published.
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1775 | (16 Dec) Jane Austen born at Steventon in Hants, seventh child of the Rev. George Austen (1731-1805) and Cassandra Leigh (1739-1827) | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1784/5 | Jane Austen and her sister, Cassandra, leave the Abbey School, Reading | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1795 | Eleanor and Marianne written, an epistolary work (novel written in letters). Lady Susan possibly also written at this point. | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1796 | (Oct) First Impressions begun (later called Pride and Prejudice) (finished Aug 1797) | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1797 | (Nov) Sense and Sensibility begun, revision of Elinor and Marianne. First Impressions unsuccessfully offered to Cadell who never looked at it. | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1798/9 | Northanger Abbey written. Sold to Crosby & Go. in 1803, however they never published the book. |
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1801 | Austens move to Bath | 26 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1805 | Rev. George Austen dies. The Watsons and Lady Susan written about this time | 30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1806 | Austens leave Bath for Clifton with 'happy feelings of escape', and visit Adlestrop and Stoneleigh. The families total income per year is 400 - 450 ponds. 210 ponds came from her mother and sisters incomes, the rest made up from her brothers' aid. Cassandra was left a small amount of money from her late fiancé. This amount of money was considered minimal for one women to live on in their class of society, not three.
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