Happy Birthday-Love, Jane: On Your Special Day, Enjoy the Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen, Beloved Lady of Letters

By Jane Austen

A Birthday Card in Book Form! Features nearly 90 witty and inspirational quotations, and a page for inscribing your personal birthday message.

Jane Austen's books have sold well over 100 million books and are never out of print. What makes her universally loved is a combination of wit, reason, sarcasm, gentility, dignity-a

• Language: English
• Publisher: Celebration Books
• Release date: Mar 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9781915393531

Jane Austen

Born in 1775, Jane Austen published four of her six novels anonymously. Her work was not widely read until the late nineteenth century, and her fame grew from then on. Known for her wit and sharp insight into social conventions, her novels about love, relationships, and society are more popular year after year. She has earned a place in history as one of the most cherished writers of English literature.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY—LOVE JANE

Born in 1775, Jane Austen came to embody the Regency period of the early 19th century as the chronicler of English upper class society, perched as she was upon its lower rungs. Marriages arranged, romances thwarted, sisterhood, and vexation by in-laws were all duly noted in her novels, some of which, surprisingly for a woman, were published in her lifetime. While she never made a fortune, she did manage to impress the future George IV. The latter’s clerk advised Jane through her publisher that she might dedicate Emma to His Majesty, as he had so enjoyed Sense and Sensibility. Little did he know how much Jane disliked the royal Prince, preferring his dejected wife, Caroline. In the end, practicality reigned and Jane gave her unenthusiastic dedication most respectfully.

Born in Steventon, Hampshire, Jane was the daughter of a clergyman who encouraged education in his daughters as well as sons. Jane would, in fact, live all her life with her family. Her father’s ongoing aches and pains were alleviated by frequent trips to the spa town of Bath, a pivotal location where Jane immersed herself in the balls, scandal, gossip and fashions of the period. Perhaps fortunate in not marrying, Jane was able to spend her freedom in the pursuit of writing stories, and her imagination and wit bestowed on her female characters a destiny that her own circumstances did not. This rare combination of