Jane Austen was born at the rectory in Steventon, Hampshire, daughter to the Rev. George Austen (1731–1805) and his wife Cassandra (née Leigh) (1739–1827). 

She lived for most of her life in the area and never married.

Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature—"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." 

Its manuscript was first written between 1796 and 1797, and was initially called First Impressions, but was never published under that title.

The English author Jane Austen lived 

from 1775 to 1817.

Her novels are highly prized not only for their light irony, humor, and depiction of contemporary English country life, but also for their underlying serious qualities.

Austen continued to live in relative seclusion and began to suffer ill-health.

 It is now thought she may have suffered from Addison's disease, the cause of which was then unknown. 

She travelled to Winchester to seek medical attention, but so rapid was the progress of her malady that she died there two months later and was buried in the cathedral.