Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in England.  Her novels were first published anonymously and brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime. She completed six novels, though two of them were published posthumously, since she died on July 18, 1817. 

Novels

Her six completed novels are:

• Sense and Sensibility (1811)
• Pride and Prejudice (1813)
• Mansfield Park (1814)
• Emma (1815)
• Persuasion (1817)
• Northanger Abbey (1817)

Themes in Her Novels

• The individual and society
• Freedom and constraint
• Imagination/fancy versus reason/judgment
• Love, courtship, and marriage