Facts about Jane Austen

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   Six of Jane Austen's novels remain continuously in print, making her one of the most enduringly popular authors in English literary history.

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   In 1816, Jane Austen was paid 450 pounds for the copyright to Susan, a novel she had sold to a publisher thirteen years earlier but was never published during her lifetime.

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   Austen's six novels were completed between 1796 and 1817, with Northanger Abbey and Persuasion published posthumously in December 1817, four months after her death in July.

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   The manuscript of Emma took Jane Austen approximately one year to complete, finished in March 1815 when she was thirty-nine years old.

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   During her lifetime, Jane Austen published only four novels anonymously, earning approximately 110 pounds total from her writing.

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