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Watercolor portrait of Jane Austen (1775–1817) painted around 1810, by her sister Cassandra Austen. National Portrait Gallery, London.. The causes of Jane Austen's death, which occurred on July 18, 1817 at the age of 41, following an undetermined illness that lasted about a year, have been discussed retrospectively by doctors whose conclusions have subsequently been taken up and analyzed by ...
Jane Austen (/ ˈ ɒ s t ɪ n, ˈ ɔː s t ɪ n / OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for ...
Mansfield Park is the third published novel by the English author Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton.A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray, still within Austen's lifetime.
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired rights to “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The studio will distribute the film in North ...
Large public funeral, 12 October 1892. [63] In 1893 the government formally requested there be a bust of Tennyson in Poets' Corner. The businessman-botanist Charles Jenner offered Thomas Woolner 's 1857 bust of Tennyson to the Abbey, and it was placed near Tennyson's gravestone, by moving a tablet to Christopher Anstey , in 1895.
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Dozens of people gathered at Roselawn Cemetery for the committal service of a formerly homeless lady who died without any known relatives. Ann Hillman lived in the Cathedral Quarter in central ...
The Rev. George Austen and Cassandra Leigh, Jane Austen's parents, lived in Steventon, Hampshire, where Rev. Austen was the rector of the Anglican parish from 1765 until 1801. [2] Jane Austen's immediate family was large and close-knit. She had six brothers—James, George, Charles, Francis, Henry, and Edward—and a beloved older sister ...