How Did Jane Austen Impact Historical Women

Two Impacting Historical Women Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott are two Novelist that as women, during a time where they were underappreciated, impacted many during the 1800s. These two women have published a handful of best-selling books. They had such a big impact that till this day their books are widely known. Some examples of their famous novels are " Little Woman" by Louisa May Alcott and Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". Jane Austen was an English Novelist born in December 16,1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, England. Her father was a dean at a university and also owned a library. While her mother was well known for writing short stories. Therefore, Jane Austen had a big influence from her family to read and write. She had a very tight bond with her family she had 6 brothers and a sister Cassandra, which she was awfully close to. Cassandra had a big impact in her writing she was the inspiration for the novel "Sense and Sensibility" which was Austen's first published novel. Jane's novels fall in the
She was the second child of four daughters, her father who was also an educator taught his daughters while they were growing up. Due to her family's poverty she was motivated to bring money home. At first, she worked in many jobs like teaching, sewing, and housework. But despite all that at the early age of sixteen she wrote her first book "Flower Fables" which was published six years later. But in these earlier years of her writing it wasn't successful to the point that during the Civil War she worked as a nurse. But during all her early publishes she wrote under pen names. Until she found great success with "Little Women" which was published in 1869. Up until her death she had many more novels written which include "Little Men" and Jo's Boy's. She died in 1888 which was the same year her last book " A Garland for Girls" was