Jane Austen "before 1796" and was told through a series of letters. Without surviving original manuscripts, there is no way to know how much of the original draft survived in the novel published anonymously in 1811 as "Sense and Sensibility". Austen began a second novel, "First Impressions" (later published as "Pride and Prejudice"), in 1796. She completed the initial draft in August 1797, aged 21; as with all of her novels, Austen read the work aloud to her family as she was working on it and it became an "established favourite". At this time, her father made the first attempt to publish
Jane Alexander (author) Jane Alexander (author) Jane Alexander is a Scottish novelist, visual artist, illustrator, designer, and short story writer originally from Aberdeen. Alexander studied Illustration at Edinburgh College of Art and completed a Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing at Glasgow University ten years later. She is now pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at Northumbria University. She released her first novel "The Last Treasure Hunt," which was published by Saraband Books in 2015 and is called a ‘a modern media morality tale’. Before her first novel, she has also written several short stories. Her short story 'In Yon Green Hill To