Criticism > Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism > Special Commissioned Essay on Jane Austen, Julia Epstein - Chronology

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CHRONOLOGY

CHRONOLOGY

The following chronology offers an overview of Austen's life and career. The topics presented here are discussed in greater detail in the critical essay that follows.

1775: Jane Austen is born on 16 December at Steventon, Hampshire, near Basingstoke, to the Reverend George Austen, Rector of Steventon (1731‐1805) and Cassandra Leigh Austen (1739‐1827), who had married in 1764. The Austens lived in Deane, Hampshire, where their first three children were born, then moved to Steventon and had five more children. Jane is the seventh of eight children: James (1765‐1819), George (1766‐1838), Edward (1768‐1852), Henry (1771‐1850), Cassandra Elizabeth (1773‐1845), Francis [Frank] (1774‐1865), and Charles John (1779‐1852). The Austens were Tories in the country village of Steventon, and associated with the local gentry. George Austen earned a respectable but not large income of £600 a year from the Deane and...

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1. Introduction
2. Chronology
3. About Jane Austen
4. Jane Austen At Work
5. Jane Austen's Era
6. Jane Austen's Works
7. Jane Austen As Studied
8. Copyright

1. Jane Austen