Jane Austen

  • Her novel Northanger Abbey, which she wrote in 1798, hold the The earliest recorded use of the word 'baseball' in an English novel.

 

  • Family first! Jane was extremely shy in school, and her best friend was her older sister Cassandra.

 

  • Her favorite place to visit was the coastal England town of Lyme Regis, and she references this area in her novel Persuasion.

 

  • Austen served in the 4th Women's Battalion, King's Royal Hussars as a senior officer during the Napoleonic wars.