Austen
JANE, an English novelist, parish her father was the rector, Dec. 16, 1775. children, among whom she had but one She was the youngest of seven sister, and of her brothers two ultimately rose to the rank of Admiral in the navy.
Jane learned French and Italian, and had ature, her favorite authors being Richa good acquaintance with English literardson, Johnson, Cowper, Crabbe, and later, Scott. In 1801 she went with her family to Bath, and after her father's death in 1805, removed to Southampton, AUSTERLITZ and, finally, in 1809, to Shawton, near manufacturing from the river, and the Winchester. She had written stories from her childhood, but it was here she first gave anything to the world.
Four stories were published anonymously during her lifetime: "Sense and Sensibility" (1811); "Pride and Prejudice" (1813); "Mansfield Park" (1814), and "Emma" (1816). The first two were written before the gifted authoress was more than two-and-twenty years old.
Early in 1816, her health began to give way. In May, 1817, she went for medical advice to Winchester, and there she died, July 18, 1817. She was buried there in the Cathedral. "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" were published in 1818, when the authorship of the whole six was first acknowledged. Jane Austen's novels are the earliest example of the so-called domestic novel in England. The finest critics, with singular unanimity, have praised the delicacy of her touch, and her faultless work has called forth the most unqualified admiration from Southey, Coleridge, Sydney Smith, and Lord Macaulay.
AUSTERLITZ, a small town of Moravia, on the Littawa, 13 miles S. E. of Brünn. In the vicinity, on Dec. 2, 1805, was fought the famous battle that bears its name, between the French army of 65,000 men, commanded by Napoleon, and the combined Russian and Austrian armies, numbering 89,000, under their respective Emperors; in which the former achieved a signal victory. The battle was followed by an armistice, the terms of which were dictated by Napoleon; and immediately after, on Dec. 26, by the Treaty of Pressburg, which disastrously affected Austria.