Biographical Information Jane Austen was one of England's foremost novelists.She was born in 16th December,1775 in the Hampshire village of Steventon. She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight- six boys and two girls. Her father the Reverend George Austen served as the Oxford educated rector for a nearby Anglican Parish. Her father was a great scholar who always encouraged the love of learning in his children. The children of family grew in an environment that stressed learning and creativity. Her elder sister Cassandra who remained the coolest companion throughout her whole life. Both sisters were never married.In order to acquire more formal education along with her sister, Jane were sent to boarding schools during Jane's pre-adolescence.During this time Jane and her sister caught typhus, with Jane nearly succumbing to the illness. After that due to some financial problem they returned to home and lived with the family from that t...