Jane Austen is one of the famous authors from United Kingdom. She brought the beauty of love to the literature world. Her novels contain the pure and innocent side of love. She had died hundreds year ago, but she is still loved by thousands of her fan and her novels-admirer. One unique facts from her is she never married, even though she made many beautiful love stories.
The Early Year of Jane
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, to George and Cassandra Austen in Steventon Rectory, Hampshire, England. She had six brothers and one sister. Both of her parents were from the lower ranks of the landed gentry - the sort of people Austen would later portray in her novels. George Austen served as rector of several nearby Anglican parishes.
The Austen children enjoyed reading books from their father's large library. She wrote "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid' in one of her works, "Northanger Abbey"
She ever studied at Mrs. Crawley boarding school in oxford, but her family couldnt afford it anymore, she had to continue learning at home. On that day, she started to write short stories.
The Romance
Jane never married in her life. She ever fell in love with Tom Lefroy, a neighbor's nephew who was studying to be a barrister, but it didn't work well. Later on, she was offered a marriage from Harris Bigg-Wither.somehow she never married to him
The Novel
As early as 1795, Austen began work on what would become "Pride and Prejudice," one of the most-read novels in the English language. It would not be finished and published for eighteen years.
A few years later, she started writing "Northanger Abbey." In early incarnations it was titled "Susan" or "Catherine." When the novel was finished, in 1803, Jane's brother, Henry, submitted it to Crosby & Company in London for publication. Benjamin Crosby paid Jane Austen 10 pounds, but he never published the book.
In 1809, Jane wrote to Crosby & Company, demanding that they either publish her book or return it. They countered that no deadline had been agreed upon, so she could either wait or return the 10 pounds she had been paid. She did not have the funds to buy back the rights to her novel. At last, in 1816, Henry Austen was able to repurchase the copyright to "Northanger Abbey."
The Final Day
In 1816, at the age of 41, Jane Austen became ill. She lost energy and her skin was discolored. Despite her illness, she started a new novel, "The Brothers," which would eventually be published as "Sanditon."
Ultimately, she became too ill to write or get out of bed. On July 18, 1817, she died in Winchester, Hampshire, England. Experts conjecture that she may have suffered from Addison's disease, Hodgkin's lymphoma, bovine tuberculosis, or a relapse of typhus.
Now, her novels are adopted to movies, read by thousand people, learned at school. Her name is widely known among literature's lovers.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
- Jane Austen
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