... prejudice, was born in Steventon, England, in 1775, where she lived for twenty-five years of her life. Her father, George Austen, was the rector of the local parish and taught her largely at home. She began to write while in her teens and completed ... Pride and Prejudice, which was then titled First Impression, between 1796 and 1797. A publisher rejected the manuscript, and it was not until 1809 that Austen began the revisions that would bring it to the final form. This book was published in January 1813, two years after her first novel, Sense ... and Sensibility, and it achieved a wor...

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• Grade Level: High School