Florence Nightingale
1820–1910
Founder of modern nursing
St Margaret's Church, East Wellow, Hampshire
In memory of
Jane Austen
Novelist
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 41 years
- Resting place
- Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Austen published four novels in her lifetime, all anonymously — the title pages said only "By a Lady". "Pride and Prejudice", "Emma" and the rest turned the narrow world of a few country families into a precise study of money, class and choice.
She died at forty-one of an illness never identified. The stone laid over her in Winchester Cathedral praises her mind and her temper but does not mention, anywhere, that she wrote books.
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