JANE AUSTEN'S BIRTHDAY 16th December.

 

Jane Austen a portrait by her sister Cassandra. National Portrait Gallery.

The handwritten copy of Jane Austen's The History of England. The British Library.

She probably wrote this in 1790 while she was living with her family at the Steventon Rectory.

The cottage in Chawton Hampshire where Jane Austen lived for the last eight years of her life from July 1809 to May 1817.