Jane Austen
Prepared by Skylar Hamilton Burris,
author of Conviction: A Sequel to Pride and Prejudice
and An Unlikely Missionary

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me
the trouble of liking them a great deal."
-- Jane Austen, Letters

[ Timeline | Paper | Fanfiction | Trivia ]

Timeline:

1775--Born the seventh child of the rector of the Steventon parish in England. 

1795--Lady Susan, Elinor and Marianne (early version of Sense and Sensibility)

1796--First Impressions (early version of Pride and Prejudice)

1801--Family moves to Bath

1803--Susan (early version of Northanger Abbey)

1805--Father dies, Jane moves with mother and her sister Cassandra to Southampton

1809--Moves to her brother Edward's home in Chawton

1811--Sense and Sensibility

1813--Pride and Prejudice

1814--Mansfield Park

1816--Emma

1817--Dies.

1818--Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.  Her brother Henry formally announces her authorship.

Papers on this Site:

Anti-Romanticism in Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen Fanfiction

Skylar's Fanfiction
This page contains three additional short stories centering on Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet as well as links to my two novels and novelette.

www.pemberley.com
A community for fans of Jane Austen's works, this site include numerous lively discussion boards for each of the novels, as well as "Bits of Ivory," a board for Jane Austen fan fiction.  You may also find a number of resources on this site for general study of the author and the time period.

www.austen.com
Includes the Derbyshire Writer's Guild, with over 1,000 fanfiction stories inspired by Austen's novels.

Suggest a website. E-mail ssburris@cox.net

Trivia:

I have contributed a Jane Austen trivia quiz to FunTrivia.  It will open in a separate window.  Close the window to return to this site.  FunTrivia has devoted an entire category to Jane Austen, so you may play a variety of other quizzes there as well.

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