Jane Austen

1775 - 1817  (41 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Jane Austen
  Birth	16 Dec 1775	Steventon, Hampshire, England
  Gender	Female
  Death	18 Jul 1817	Winchester, Hampshire, England
  Siblings	6 Siblings
  + 1. James Austen,   b. 1765   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Anne Mathew;   Mary Lloyd + 2. Edward Knight,   b. 7 Oct 1768   d. 1852  (Age 83 years) ▻ Elizabeth Bridges   3. Henry Austen,   b. 1771, London, Middlesex, England d. 1850  (Age 79 years) ▻ Eliza Hancock,  m. Dec 1797   4. Cassandra Austen,   b. 1773   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Chaplain Thomas Craven Fowle + 5. Admiral Frank Austen,   b. 1774, Ramsgate, Southampton, Hampshire, England d. 1865  (Age 91 years) ▻ Mary Gibson;   Martha Lloyd   6. Jane Austen,   b. 16 Dec 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, England d. 18 Jul 1817, Winchester, Hampshire, England  (Age 41 years) + 7. Admiral Charles Austen,   b. 1779, Bermuda, British Oversea Territory d. 1852  (Age 73 years) ▻ Frances Palmer;   Harriet Palmer
  Person ID	I32893	Geneagraphie
  Links To	This person is also Jane Austen at Wikipedia
  Last Modified	18 Oct 2013

  
  

  Father	Rev George Austen,   b. 1731, Steventon d. Jan 1805, Bath, Somerset, England (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Cassandra Leigh,   b. 1739, Southampton, Chawton d. 1827 (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	26 Apr 1764	Walcot Church, Bath, Somerset, England
  Family ID	F13796	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  1775 Jane Austen born at village of Steventon, England, to George and Cassandra Austen. 1785-1787 With her sister, Cassandra, Austen attends the Abbey School in Reading, England. 1790-93 Writes her juvenilia. 1795-98 Writes original versions of Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice. 1797 "First Impressions" (original version of Pride and Prejudice) rejected by a London publisher. 1801 Father retires and moves to Bath with his wife and daughters. 1803 Susan (original version of Northanger Abbey) is bought by a publisher but never issued. 1804 Austen begins, and quickly abandons, "The Watsons." 1805 Death of father, George. 1808 Moves to Southampton with mother and sister. 1809-17 Lives with her mother and sister in a small house provided by her wealthy brother Edward in the village of Chawton, in southern England. Begins revising original versions of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. 1811 Sense and Sensibility published. 1813 Pride and Prejudice published. 1814 Mansfield Park published. Austen begins work on Emma. 1816 Emma is published and is dedicated to the Prince Regent (future George IV) at his request. Austen completes Persuasion. 1817 Composes the fragment "Sanditon"; abandons it because of incapacitating illness. Austen is moved to Winchester for medical care in May and dies there on 18 July. Buried in Winchester Cathedral on 24 July. 1818 Northanger Abbey and Persuasion published jointly in a four-volume edition, with a biographical preface of Austen by her brother Henry. In 1795-6, she had a mutual flirtation with Thomas Lefroy (an Irish relative of Jane Austen's close older friend Mrs. Anne Lefroy). On January 14th and 15th 1796, when she was 20, she wrote (somewhat sarcastically), in a letter to Cassandra: "Tell Mary that I make over Mr. Heartley and all his estate to her for her sole use and benefit in future, and not only him, but all my other admirers into the bargain wherever she can find them, even the kiss which C. Powlett wanted to give me, as I mean to confine myself in future to Mr. Tom Lefroy, for whom I do not care sixpence. Assure her also, as a last and indisputable proof of Warren's indifference to me, that he actually drew that gentleman's picture for me, and delivered it to me without a sigh. Friday. -- At length the day is come on which I am to flirt my last with Tom Lefroy, and when you receive this it will be over. My tears flow at the melancholy idea." Life (1775-1817) and Family