Jane Austen Celebration – 200 Years of an Extraordinary Life
18th July 1817 a 41 year old English countrywoman Jane Austen passed on, having published six novels 1811 – 1818 based on her observations of English rural life
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen – Provincial Life & The Cultivation of the Mind
While her only known image may seem to reveal otherwise, there was nothing really plain about Jane. Her novels belong as much to her times as do the list of battle honours won by those involved in the era’s significant war campaigns.