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Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the village of Steventon, near Basingstoke, in Hampshire. She was the youngest of seven children. She was daughter of the Reverend George Austen and his wife Cassandra. Jane was educated at home and never really lived apart from her family. From her oldest sister Cassandra, she was most inseparable. As a little girl Jane was encouraged to write. Impressively, at the age of fourteen she wrote her first novel. It was entitled Love and Friendship and soon after she published A History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian. In her early