TY - BOOK AU - Pliscou,Lisa AU - Corace,Jen TI - Brave Jane Austen: reader, writer, author, rebel SN - 9781627796439 (hardcover) AV - PR4036 .P55 2018 U1 - BIO 23 KW - Austen, Jane, KW - Novelists, English KW - 19th century KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature N1 - Ages 7-10 N2 - Born in the late 1700s, Jane Austen was a smart, creative girl in a house full of boys, all of whom could aspire to accomplish many things as adults while girls were raised primarily to become good wives. Jane didn’t have much opportunity to go to school but she read everything she could, including all the books in her father’s study. And before long, she began to write her own stories, filled with funny, clever, and inventive characters.Today, Austen’s novels (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and ER -