Jane Austen



Description	British writer, short story writer and novelist
Date of birth/death	16 December 1775	18 July 1817
Location of birth/death	Steventon	Winchester
Work period	1787 –
Work location	England
Authority file	: Q36322 VIAF: 102333412 ISNI: 0000 0001 2283 635X ULAN: 500249665 LCCN: n79032879 NLA: 35010277 MusicBrainz: 53e49c72-6e72-4fe0-a63f-f66e26e1d0a7 Open Library: OL21594A DBNL: aust003 Oxford Dict.: 904 GND: 118505173 SELIBR: 207420 SUDOC: 02669719X BNF: 118896036 NDL: 00431922 BIBSYS: 90068190 NKC: jn19990000321 SBN: CFIV017136 BNE: XX1124986 CiNii: DA00467633 NLP: A11873723 J9U: 987007258075105171 Koninklijke: 068721722 NLK: KAC199601201 WorldCat

Portraits[edit]

An 1804 watercolor of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra
A sketch of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra (c.1810)
A sketch of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra (c.1810)
Posthumous engraving of Austen published in the 1869-70 Memoir
Rather stiff 1873 re-engraving of the Memoir portrait
A relatively good reengraving of the Memoir portrait (ca. 1900)
Remastered detail from sketch of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra

Note: All the older published "portraits" of Austen were based on an engraving in the 1870 Edward Austen-Leigh Memoir of Jane Austen, which in turn was based on a somewhat rudimentary life sketch of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra (a sketch which was not considered too successful by some of those who had known Jane Austen), as reinterpreted and Victorianized in 1869 by Mr. Andrews of Maidenhead, Kent, and then the engraver (see Jane Austen: A Family Record, p. 253). The 1870 engraving which was the result of this process was further redone and reinterpreted in subsequent publications, with varying results. The accuracy of such "portraits" is thus somewhat doubtful.