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On this day in 1817, Jane Austen died, at the age of forty-one. She had been increasingly ill over the previous year and a half, probably from a hormonal disorder like Addison's Disease.

Novels:

• Sense and Sensibility (published 1811)
• Pride and Prejudice (1813)
• Mansfield Park (1814)
• Emma (1816)
• Persuasion (1818) posthumous
• Northanger Abbey (1818) posthumous

Born: 16 December 1775
Steventon, Hampshire, England

Died: 18 July 1817 (age 41)
Winchester, Hampshire, England


"Cottage" where Jane Austen lived during the last 8 years of her life (today a museum).

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot