Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire in 1775. Jane was the fifth child in a family of seven. She started writing at an age of 12. She was sent to a private school where the education was good and she also had extra support from her father to improve her education and literacy ambition. Jane never married during her life and she was a very independent woman. This was considered bad in these times because women were meant to marry like in Pride and Prejudice, Mrs Bennet is always going on about getting her daughters married. This was because Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in t…
