How My Life Began and My Journeys Since

                I was born on December 16, 1775 in the village of Steventon in Hampshire.  I was the seventh of eight children in our family. Since my father was a clergyman, we were fairly well off. I had a pretty fine childhood. I learned to read and write while I was homeschooled, and I greatly enjoyed our gigantic library that was full of all different kinds of books.

When I was 14, I began writing my first novel, Love and Friendship. When I was 19, I wrote Elinor and Marianne as a series of letters, which later became Sense and Sensibility when I rewrote it as an elegant novel. At 20, I began the novel I initially called First Impressions, which was later published as Pride and Prejudice. Around the same time, I was working on a novel called Susan, which later became Northanger Abbey.

With the help of my sweet talking brother I published Sense and Sensibility in 1811. Also in this year I created the novel Mansfield Park. My second novel published was Pride and Prejudice in 1813. In 1814, I created one of my most highly acclaimed novels, Emma, and in that year Mansfield Park was published. In 1816, I finished writing Persuasion, which was my last novel published in my lifetime.