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AUSTEN, JANE (1775-1817)

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From: Young Students Learning Library
Date: 19960101
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Jane Austen began writing to amuse herself and her family when she was just a child. She spelled the title of her first book Love and Freindship, but her writing and spelling improved as she grew older. Years later, she wrote Pride and Prejudice, one of the best-known novels ever written.

Jane Austen, daughter of a minister, was born in Hampshire, England. She was the youngest in a family of seven children and she never married. Life in the small English towns where her father preached could have been dull, but not to Jane. She was interested in everything and everybody. ...

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