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ⓘ About Jane Austen
Jane Austen was born on December 16th, 1775. She had a public baptism several months later, on April 5th of 1776. Rather than being reared by her mother in her family home, Austen was sent to live with a nearby woman named Elizabeth Littlewood, who cared for her a year or more. According to the tradition of the family, Jane and her sister, Cassandra Austen, were sent to Oxford to be educated. Unfortunately, both girls came down with a case of typhus, leaving Jane near to death. Subsequently, she was sent back home to be educated until the age of three, when both she and Cassandra were once more sent away, this time to a boarding school. While there, they studied French, needlework, spelling, music, and dancing, all considered a necessity for a girl at the time.
All Book Series by Jane Austen
Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom
Latest in the series · book 4 of 4 · published 2023
Lady Susan, the Watsons, and Sanditon: Unfinished Fictions and Other Writings
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2021
Juvenilia Volume II Annotated
Latest in the series · book 2 of 2 · published 2021
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Book 3 of 40 · published 1861 Anthology · Harriet Ann Jacobs
Lady Audley's Secret
Book 4 of 40 · published 1862 Anthology · Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
Book 5 of 40 · published 1892 Anthology · Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Goodness of St. Rocque: And Other Stories
Book 7 of 40 · published 1899 Anthology · Alice Dunbar-Nelson
The Custom of the Country
Book 8 of 40 · published 1913 Anthology · Edith Wharton
Regiment of Women
Book 10 of 40 · published 1917 Anthology · Clemence Dane,Melissa Broder
The Heads of Cerberus
Book 11 of 40 · published 1919 Anthology · Francis Stevens
Powder And Patch / The Transformation of Philip Jettan
Book 12 of 40 · published 1923 Anthology · Georgette Heyer
A Daughter of the Samurai
Book 13 of 40 · published 1925 Anthology · Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
The Return of the Soldier
Book 19 of 40 · published 1970 Anthology · Rebecca West
The Selected Poetry
Book 20 of 40 · published 2002 Anthology · Edna St. Vincent Millay,Olivia Gatwood,Nancy Milford
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy
Book 21 of 40 · published 2010 Anthology · Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Narrative Of Sojourner Truth
Book 23 of 40 · published 2019 Anthology · Sojourner Truth,Oliver Gilbert
There Is Confusion
Book 24 of 40 · published 2020 Anthology · Jessie Redmon Fauset
The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa
Book 26 of 40 · published 2020 Anthology · Sawako Nakayasu,Chika Sagawa
The Squatter and the Don
Book 27 of 40 · published 2021 Anthology · Ana Castillo,María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Mrs. Spring Fragrance: and Other Writings
Book 28 of 40 · published 2021 Anthology · C Pam Zhang,Sui Sin Far
The Southern Woman: Selected Fiction
Book 29 of 40 · published 2021 Anthology · Elizabeth Spencer
The Princess of 72nd Street
Book 30 of 40 · published 2024 Anthology · Elaine Kraf
I Am Clarence
Book 31 of 40 · published 2025 Anthology · Sarah Manguso,Elaine Kraf
Lolly Willowes or, the loving huntsman
Book 32 of 40 · published 2025 Anthology · Sylvia Townsend Warner
Plum Bun Without a Moral
Book 34 of 40 · published 2025 Anthology · Jessie Redmon Fauset
Nothing Grows by Moonlight
Book 36 of 40 · published 2026 Anthology · Torborg Nedreaas
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Book 38 of 40 · published 2026 Anthology · Katherine Mansfield,Sloane Crosley
Goodbye, Ramona
Latest in the series · book 40 of 40 · published 2026 Anthology · Montserrat Roig
The Theme of the Three Caskets
Book 4 of 35 · published 1913 Anthology · Sigmund Freud
The Lottery in Babylon
Book 7 of 35 · published 1941 Anthology · Jorge Luis Borges
Essay on the Art of Crawling
Book 10 of 35 · published 2022 Anthology · Paul-Henri Thiry
The American Dream Is at the Expense of the American Negro
Book 13 of 35 · published 2024 Anthology · James Baldwin
Contempt is a Dangerous Way to Lead a Country
Book 17 of 35 · published 2025 Anthology · Mariann Edgar Budde
On Talkativeness
Book 18 of 35 · published 2025 Anthology · Plutarch,W. C. Helmbold
The Spirit of Monarchy
Book 19 of 35 · published 2025 Anthology · William Hazlitt
The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
Book 21 of 35 · published 2025 Anthology · Étienne de La Boétie
In Praise of Cosmetics
Book 23 of 35 · published 2025 Anthology · Charles Baudelaire
Death of a Prince
Book 24 of 35 · published 2025 Anthology · Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Communist of Montmartre
Book 25 of 35 · published 2025 Anthology · Michael Kleeberg
The Glow of the Dim
Book 26 of 35 · published 2025 Anthology · Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
The Case Against Travel
Book 29 of 35 · published 2026 Anthology · Agnes Callard
Individualism and Conformism in the United States
Book 30 of 35 · published 2026 Anthology · Jean-Paul Sartre
From Protest to Politics
Book 31 of 35 · published 2026 Anthology · Bayard Rustin
What's in a Name
Book 33 of 35 · published 2026 Anthology · Claude Lévi-Strauss
Decadent, Stricken, Dying
Book 34 of 35 · published 2026 Anthology · Aimé Césaire
What We Owe One Another
Latest in the series · book 35 of 35 · published 2026 Anthology · Simone Weil
The Greatest Tales of Regency Romance
Latest in the series · book 9 of 9 · published 2023
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Jane Austen?
Jane Austen was born on December 16th, 1775. She had a public baptism several months later, on April 5th of 1776. Rather than being reared by her mother in her family home, Austen was sent to live with a nearby woman named Elizabeth Littlewood, who cared for her a year or more.
Which Jane Austen series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Juvenilia series, the earliest of Jane Austen's multi-book series: it opens with Juvenilia Volume I Annotated (1787) and runs to 2 books across 1787–2021, ending with Juvenilia Volume II Annotated (2021).
How many books has Jane Austen written?
Jane Austen has 106 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1787 and 2026. 77 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Juvenilia series with 2 books — and 29 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Jane Austen's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Jane Austen's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Juvenilia (1787–2021, 2 books).
How are Jane Austen's books organised into series?
This guide splits Jane Austen's 106 books into 3 named series and 29 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Juvenilia (2 books, 1787–2021); Modern Library Torchbearers (40 books, 1818–2026); ERIS Gems (35 books, 1793–2026).