Jane Austen is one of the most well-known female writers in English literature, known as “female Shakespeare”. Jane was a well-educated woman from a clerical family and lived in a small village in the southern part of England. Due to her...

Jane Austen and her sister had never married like her characters in the novel, but her social life was also active with at least two suitors and romantic dreams. One of her brothers became a clergyman, two served in the navy; one was born me...