Jane Austen · every age
What was Jane Austen doing at 40?
Wrote Pride and Prejudice at 21, published it at 37
- Mar 1816
Brother Henry's bank failed
It cost three other brothers large sums. She bought back the Susan copyright that year.
Source: en.wikipedia.org - Aug 6, 1816
Finished rewriting the ending of Persuasion
Unhappy with the first draft completed in July, she redid the last two chapters.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Others at 40
Portrait: Portrait: Cassandra Austen (c. 1810), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source
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