Spinster

Spinster - Timeline

Nigel Bruce

  • 1775 Jane Austen born in Steventon, Hampshire
  • 1795 begins work on Sense and Sensibility
  • 1796 Tom Lefroy incident
  • 1797 News comes of Tom Fowle’s death and she begins work on Pride and Prejudice
  • 1798 Begins Northanger Abbey; completed the following year
  • 1800 Family moves from Steventon to Bath
  • 1802 Jane Austen rejects Harris Bigg-Wither’s proposal of marriage
  • 1803 Revises Northanger Abbey
  • 1805 Jane Austen’s father dies
  • 1806 Family moves to Southampton, Hampshire
  • 1809 Family moves to Chawton, Hampshire, not that far from Steventon
  • 1811 Sense and Sensibility published
  • 1813 Pride and Prejudice published
  • 1814 Mansfield Park published
  • 1816 Emma published
  • 1817 Jane Austen dies in Winchester
  • 1818 Persuasion and Northanger Abbey published

For a more detailed timeline, try Wikipedia here.