Austen, Jane
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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AUSTEN, JANE o st n, 1775 1817, English novelist. The daughter of a clergyman, she spent the...authorship, she received little public recognition in her lifetime. Jane Austens novels are comedies of manners that depict the self-contained...