Jane Austen

The English novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817) was born in Steventon, Hampshire, where her father was rector. Her six "authorised novels," all published anonymously were: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1818). All six have been successfully adapted for film and television.
Apart from her father, two of Jane's brothers and four of her cousins were all clergymen. Jane herself was a little sympathetic to the evangelical movement but was put off by some of the more narrow-minded evangelicals, whose seriousness and inability to understand human nature disgusted her. She once wrote in a letter that she has " a great respect for Sweden because it had been so zealous for Protestantism."