Jane Austen Semiquincentennial

Jane Austen was born 250 years ago today. Happy birthday, Jane! This year, I re-read all six of her published novels Sense and Sensibility (1811) Pride and Prejudice (1813) Mansfield Park (1814) Emma (1816) Persuasion (1817, posthumous) Northanger Abbey (1817, posthumous) a few of her older works Love and Freindship (1790) The History of England (1791)