Jane Austen was born in Hampshire, where she spent first 25 years of her life. She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight. Jane Austen was mostly tutored at home, and irregularly at school, but she received a broader education than many women of her time. She started to write for family amusement as a child. Her famous books include, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815). Her works are one of the most written-about and debated in English literature Early in 1816, Jane Austen got sick with Addison's disease. Jane Austen died in Winchester on 18 July 1817. Austen has many admiring readers even today and they view themselves part of a literary elite.