ISBN Persuasion book English 304 pages

Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family's amusement, as well as a novella,Lady Susan. Her first published novel wasSense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed byPride and Prejudice,Mansfield ParkandEmma. Austen died in 1817, andPersuasionandNorthanger Abbeywere published posthumously in 1818.