---
type: Person
title: Jane Austen
description: English novelist; author of Pride and Prejudice.
resource: raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt
tags:
- jane-austen
- novelist
- regency-era
timestamp: '2026-07-16T17:35:47Z'
citadel_version: 0.3.0
---

Jane Austen wrote [Pride and Prejudice](../objects/pride-and-prejudice.md).[^s1] According to the
novel's 1894 preface by George Saintsbury, she first drafted it in about 1796, when she was barely
twenty-one, then revised and finished it at Chawton some fifteen years later; it was published in
1813, four years before her death.[^s1] Saintsbury's preface names five of her other novels —
*Northanger Abbey*, *Persuasion*, *Mansfield Park*, *Sense and Sensibility*, and *Emma* — and
argues that *Pride and Prejudice* surpasses all of them, including the more popular *Emma*.[^s2]

## See also

- [Pride and Prejudice](../objects/pride-and-prejudice.md)

## Sources

[^s1]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 108-114 — Saintsbury's preface on Austen's composition and publication timeline (ingested 2026-07-16)
[^s2]: [raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt](../../raw/pride-and-prejudice.txt), lines 76-96 — Saintsbury names and ranks Austen's six novels (ingested 2026-07-16)
