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How a self-taught woman from a small English village became a great novelist.
At 17, Jane Austen is growing up in a small English village. She starts to write stories, culminating in Pride and Prejudice.
5/26/2025
After the loss of her father throwing the family into turmoil, Jane publishes Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.
Determined to secure her financial future, Austen dives back into her writing, embarking on her most ambitious work yet—Emma.
