Jane Austen: bibliography and biography
British · 1775–1817
Jane Austen wrote six completed novels, all published between 1811 and 1817, the last two only after her death. She never married, lived most of her life in rural Hampshire, and published anonymously during her lifetime — her name did not appear on a title page until after she died.
Her novels are built around courtship, marriage and social class in English gentry society, told through free indirect speech and irony that influenced the realist novel for the century that followed.
Works
- Sense and Sensibility1811
- Pride and Prejudice1813
- Mansfield Park1814
- Emma1815
- Northanger Abbey1817 · published posthumously
- Persuasion1817 · published posthumously
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Where this comes from
How many books did Jane Austen write?
This page lists 6 works by Jane Austen, spanning 1811 to 1817 — not necessarily a complete catalogue, since minor works, letters and uncollected pieces are left out, but enough to cover the titles readers search for most.
Is Jane Austen's work in the public domain?
Jane Austen died in 1817, long past the life-plus-70-years copyright term most countries apply, which is why the full text circulates freely through archives such as Project Gutenberg and can be quoted directly on this page.
Where should you start reading Jane Austen?
Sense and Sensibility (1811) is usually the first recommendation for readers new to Jane Austen, and from there the 6-title list above follows roughly the order the books were written — often a more useful reading order than any ranking.
A line from Jane Austen, in their own words
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." — from Pride and Prejudice (1813), a line Jane Austen wrote themselves and quoted here directly from the public-domain text, not from a secondary attribution site, so it can be trusted word for word.
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Public domain
A work whose copyright term has expired — commonly life plus 70 years after the author's death — and so can be freely copied and republished.
Bibliography
An organized list of an author's published works, usually with each one's publication year.
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