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From: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Date: 20040101
Author:
Jane Austen
The English writer Jane Austen (1775-1817) was one of the most important novelists of the 19th century.
In her intense concentration on the thoughts and feelings of a limited number of characters, Jane Austen creates as profound an understanding and as precise a vision of the potentialities of the human spirit as the art of fiction has ever achieved. Although her novels received favorable reviews, she was not celebrated as an author during her lifetime.
Jane Austen was born in 1775 at Steventon, in the south of England, where her father was rector of the parish. She ...
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