Jane Austen died in 1817 at the age of 41 ... and she actually did distribute many letters among her brothers' children and to admirers of Jane's work which allowed the author's legacy to not ...

Jane Austen was born in a small village in Hampshire in 1775. She was one of eight children - part of a middle-class, largely unremarkable, family. She began writing in her teens. All of Austen's ...