Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. The titles of her completed works are, in order of publication: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815/16), Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1817/18). Also published are her juvenilia (writings during her youth), the epistolary novel Lady Susan (1871), and two unfinished novels titled Sanditon and The Watsons, the latter two typically sold in a collection with the juvenilia or other novels.
All of Austen's works (excluding The Watsons and the juvenilia) have been adapted for television, film, and theater, many of them multiple times. The first novel to receive a film adaptation was Pride and Prejudice in 1940, starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier, and the story was made into a musical in 2020.
On July18, 2017 -- two hundred years to the day since the death of Jane Austen -- The Bank of England revealed that Austen's portrait had been added to the £10 note, replacing Charles Darwin. The Royal Mint also issued a limited supply of £2 coins honoring the author.