✦ Est. 1997  •  The Original Jane Austen Fan Site  ✦

Jane Austen.com

Novels — Fan Fiction — Biography — Regency

The oldest Jane Austen fan site on the web — home to the complete texts of all six major novels, a biographical timeline, curated links, and archives of Regency-era research.

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The Novels

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1798–99 • Published 1817

Northanger Abbey

A comic love story in Bath about a young reader who must separate Gothic fantasy from reality.

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~1797 • Published 1811

Sense and Sensibility

Impetuous Marianne and prudent Elinor Dashwood navigate love, heartbreak, and reduced circumstances.

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~1797 • Published 1813

Pride and Prejudice

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy overcome first impressions, pride, and prejudice to find one another.

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1811–13 • Published 1814

Mansfield Park

Austen’s most complex novel — Fanny Price grows up among wealth and moral ambiguity. Annotated.

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1814–15 • Published 1815

Emma

Self-assured Emma Woodhouse fancies herself a matchmaker — and meddles her way into self-discovery. Annotated.

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1815–16 • Published 1817

Persuasion

A quiet novel of second chances. Anne Elliot reunited with Captain Wentworth, years after being persuaded to refuse him.

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Jane Austen

The Fan Site

A love letter
nearly thirty years in the making

Austen.com began in 1997, when the internet was young and Jane Austen was already conquering a new generation — Colin Firth’s wet shirt still fresh in memory, the books flying off shelves, and a worldwide community of Janeites finding one another online for the first time.

The site grew into one of the web’s longest-running Austen resources — hosting the complete texts of all six major novels, a biographical timeline, curated links to Regency research, and the archives of the Derbyshire Writers’ Guild fan fiction community.

We are now looking for new contributors who love Jane Austen and would like to help maintain and grow this site. Get in touch if you’re interested.

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Complete Novels
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Years Online
100+
Regency Links
“

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Beyond the novels

Explore the Austen World

Curated links to the best Jane Austen and Regency resources — online communities, recommended books, societies, tourist sites, and historical research.

Online

Jane Austen Links

The Republic of Pemberley, Jane Austen Fanfiction Index, AustenBlog, scholarly discussion forums, and illustrated e-texts.

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Books & Societies

Offline Resources

Recommended biographies, Jane Austen societies in North America, the UK and Australia, and tourist sites to visit.

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Historical Context

Regency England

Society, fashion, and military links for the era Austen wrote about — from Napoleonic Wars to Regency gowns.

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What the full site contains
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Northanger Abbey

31 chapters — complete text with chapter index.
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Sense & Sensibility

50 chapters across 3 volumes — complete text.
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Pride & Prejudice

61 chapters — Austen’s most beloved novel, complete.
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Mansfield Park

48 annotated chapters — plus Lovers’ Vows play.
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Emma

55 annotated chapters across 3 volumes.
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Persuasion

24 chapters — with Henry Austen’s Biographical Notice.
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Online Links

Fan sites, digital texts, and Janeite discussion boards.
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Regency England

Society, fashion, and military — the world Austen inhabited.
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1995 Costumes

Elizabeth Bennet’s complete costume list from the BBC series.
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Store

Recommended books and gifts for Janeites.
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HTML Tutorial

A basic HTML tag tutorial — popular since 1997.
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Tourist Sites

Chawton, Bath, Hampshire — planning a Janeite pilgrimage.

1775–1817

Life of Jane Austen

16 December 1775 Born in Steventon, Hampshire to Rev. George Austen and Cassandra, née Leigh.
1787–1793 Writes her Juvenilia — sharp, comic pieces originally shared with family and friends.
November 1797 Her father offers an early version of Pride and Prejudice to a publisher, who declines to read it.
1801 The family moves to Bath — setting of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
Spring 1803 Sells Northanger Abbey (then called Susan) to a publisher who advertises but never publishes it.
7 July 1809 Settles at Chawton in Hampshire — beginning of her most productive writing years.
30 October 1811 Sense and Sensibility published anonymously — “By a Lady.” It earns a profit.
28 January 1813 Pride and Prejudice published. People outside her family begin to learn she is the author.
9 May 1814 Mansfield Park published.
December 1815 Emma published, dedicated to the Prince Regent — a polite command she could not refuse.
18 July 1817 Jane Austen dies in Winchester, most likely of Addison’s disease. Buried in Winchester Cathedral.
Late 1817 Her brother Henry publishes Persuasion and Northanger Abbey together, with a Biographical Notice revealing her authorship for the first time.