The Writer: Jane Austen (1775-1817) 1. Biography of Jane Austen · Name: Jane Austen. · Born: December 16, 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, England. · The seventh child and second daughter of Cassandra and George Austen. · Her father served as the Oxford-educated rector for a nearby Anglican parish. · Austen's comic novels of love among the landed gentry gained popularity after 1869, and her reputation skyrocketed in the 20th century. · In the 1790s, her first own novel is Love and Freindship, a parody of romantic fiction organized as a series of love letters. · The next year she wrote The History...