Jane Austen

At some point, we have all come across at least one of Jane Austen’s famous novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma were the four novels published during her life span of 41 years. However, two were published after her death, which was reportedly the end result of either Hodgkin’s lymphoma or Addison’s disease (reports differ).

Most of Austen’s novels have been made into films, and she’d loved to have seen the impact her writing would have on the world centuries later. Sadly, she only became a household name posthumously. She would be a New York Times best-selling author had she lived in this era.