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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Jeyson Linares) JANE AUSTEN was born in North-east Hampshire, on 16th December 1775. During the 1790's she wrote the first drafts of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey; her trips to Kent and Bath gave her the local color for the settings of these last two books. Jane fell ill in 1816 - possibly with Addison's Disease - and in the summer of 1817, her family took her to Winchester for medical treatment. She died on 18th July 1817. Her life and writing career overlapped with one of the most transformative eras in British history, marked by revolution abroad and unrest at home. The signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the year after Austen’s birth, signaled the start of the American Revolution, followed in the next decade by the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789. Austen's novels provide an accurate record of that moment in English history in which high bourgeois society most eviden...