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Jane Austen

1775 - 1817

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Jane Austen ( OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works are implicit critiques of the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her use of social commentary, realism, wit, and irony have earned her acclaim amongst critics and scholars. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jane Austen is the 47th most popular writer, the 35th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 5th most popular British Writer.

Jane Austen is most famous for her novels, such as Pride and Prejudice and Emma.

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Among writers, Jane Austen ranks 47 out of 7,302. Before her are Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola, Stendhal, Euripides, Gustave Flaubert, and Aristophanes. After her are Aeschylus, Simone de Beauvoir, Octave Mirbeau, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sappho, and Thomas Mann.

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Among people born in 1775, Jane Austen ranks 2. Before her is André-Marie Ampère. After her are Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Bahadur Shah Zafar, J. M. W. Turner, Ching Shih, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Lucien Bonaparte, Eugène François Vidocq, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Matthew Lewis, and François-Adrien Boieldieu. Among people deceased in 1817, Jane Austen ranks 1. After her are Princess Charlotte of Wales, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Germaine de Staël, Charles Messier, André Masséna, Karađorđe, Marie Walewska, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, and Duke Louis of Württemberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jane Austen ranks 35 out of 8,785. Before her are Margaret Thatcher (1925), Anne Boleyn (1501), Alexander Fleming (1881), James Cook (1728), James Prescott Joule (1818), and Alexander Graham Bell (1847). After her are Robert Hooke (1635), David Hume (1711), Mary I of England (1516), John Maynard Keynes (1883), Alfred Hitchcock (1899), and John Lennon (1940).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Jane Austen ranks 11. Before her are William Shakespeare (1564), Agatha Christie (1890), H. G. Wells (1866), Charles Dickens (1812), Thomas Hardy (1840), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Lord Byron (1788), D. H. Lawrence (1885), Daniel Defoe (1660), and Virginia Woolf (1882). After her are Lewis Carroll (1832).

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