Special Commissioned Essay on Jane Austen, Julia Epstein - About Jane Austen
ABOUT JANE AUSTEN
Julia Epstein (essay date 2003)
SOURCE: Epstein, Julia. “An Overview of the Life and Career of Jane Austen.” In Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vol. 119, edited by Jessica Bomarito, Edna Hedblad, and Russel Whitaker. Farmington Hills, Mich.: The Gale Group, 2003.
[In the following essay, Epstein discusses the major aspects of Austen's life and career, focusing on biographical, textual, and critical avenues of exploration into the author's enduring popularity.]
ABOUT JANE AUSTEN
Born: 16 December 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, England.
Marital Status: Single
Education: Jane Austen's only formal schooling consisted of a year in 1783 with Mrs. Cawley at Oxford and Southampton, and two years in 1785‐87 at the Abbey School in Reading.
Died: 18 July 1817 in Winchester, Kent, England, at age forty‐two.
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