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Jane Austen

author, novelist, writer

browse: writers, short story writers, novelists

dead

born: 1775
died: 1817
age at death: 41
known for: writer, short story writer, novelist

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who jane austen is

Jane Austen was an English writer known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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