Jane Austen - Sanditon

SANDITON

Jane Austen was born in 1775 in the village of Steventon, Hampshire, the daughter of an Anglican clergyman. The Austens were cultured but not at all rich, though one of Austens brothers was adopted by a wealthy relative. Other brothers followed professional careers in the church, the Navy, and banking. With the exception of two brief periods away at school, Austen and her elder sister Cassandra, her closest friend and confidante, were educated at home. Austens earliest surviving work, written at Steventon while still in her teens, is dedicated to her family and close female friends. Between 1801 and 1809 Austen lived in Bath, where her father died in 1805, and in Southampton. In 1809, she moved with her mother, Cassandra, and their great friend Martha Lloyd to Chawton, Hampshire, her home until her death at Winchester in 1817. During this time, Austen published four of her major novels: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816), visiting London regularly to oversee their publication. Her two final novels, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, were published posthumously in 1818. Sanditon, a new novel, was left unfinished at the time of her death.

Kathryn Sutherland is Professor of English Literature and Senior Research Fellow, St Annes College, Oxford. Her recent publications include Jane Austens Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood (2005) and, with Marilyn Deegan, Transferred Illusions: Digital Technology and the Forms of Print (2009). She is the editor of Jane Austens Fiction Manuscripts: A Digital Edition (2010) and the expanded print edition, 5 vols (2018). In the Oxford Worlds Classics series she has also published editions of Walter Scotts Redgauntlet and Waverley, of Adam Smiths An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, of James Edward Austen-Leighs A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections, and of Jane Austens Teenage Writings.

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