The Web Poetry Corner - Joyce Hemsley - Jane Austen
Jane Austen
by
Joyce Hemsley
Series of famous
British names
Here she is:
Lady of great literary achievement,
JANE AUSTEN, Nineteenth Century
Novelist.
Jane was born in Hampshire, Southern
England - my own birthplace. A beautiful
County in the South...JANE AUSTEN wrote
famous Novels, made into films, including
Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice
and Northanger Abbey. The novels were so
successful, she continued to write and
published Mansfield Park, also Emma and
Persuasion. Two novels were unfinished.
JANE AUSTEN died at Winchester, Hants.,
in the year eighteen seventeen, age 42.
She is buried within the Cathedral, and
her novels are still being read, and some
of the films still entertaining us. We
pay our respects to a remarkable Lady.