Emma
In Our Time
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Jane Austen: A Novelist
Jane Austen was born in December 1775 in Stephenton, 16 miles south of Basingstoke. Her father was George Austin, a clergyman but not a clergyman like Mr. Elton in Emma. She wrote to one correspondent three or four families in a village is the very thing to work on and to another that she specialized in scenes of domestic life in a country village. This is where she came from, what she knew best. And she decided that this is what defined her as a writer.
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