Happy Birthday, Jane Austen!

Jane Austen's portrait, by her sister Cassandra Austen, watercolor and pencil (c.1810.)

 Jane Austen, b. December 16th, 1775, d. July 18th, 1817.  An English novelist (and my daughter's namesake) whose major works of fiction are Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.

Happy Birthday!