Random Things About This Author:
- In her lifetime she completed six novels, including Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice,
- Austen gained her knowledge of life at sea -- important, for instance, in Persuasion -- through her brother Frank, who had a successful career in the British navy and was closest in age to Jane.
- For her first love, Austen got a story worthy of one of her novels -- one that in fact has certain things in common with that of Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility. The object of her love, Tom Lefroy, was the Irish nephew of her close friend Anne Lefroy. Knowing that Tom would lose his inheritance if he married a "nobody," Anne Lefroy hurried Tom out of the county when the romance came to her attention. (Tom later became the Chief Justice of Ireland.)
- What was the original title of Sense and Sensibility? Elinor and Marriane and it was originally a book of letters. The final draft was published in 1811
- What was the original name of Pride and Prejudice? First Impressions
- Outside the room where Jane Austen would write, there was a swinging door that creaked. Austen refused to allow it to be fixed because the creaking gave her warning when anyone was entering the room, allowing her time to hide her work.
- The young Jane Austen preferred cricket and baseball to traditional girls’ games.
- Austen’s perfectionism and attention to detail caused her to edit and rewrite each of her novels at least twice.
- Austen’s career and life were cut short at the age of 42 when she died of Addison’s disease.
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