The Jane Austen Gift Set

Rifle Paper Co. x Jane Austen classics in a beautiful 3-book boxed set, just in time for the holidays!

Beloved regency romance author Jane Austen’s three seminal classics in one gorgeous gift box. Each come with covers and slipcase all beautifully illustrated by Rifle Paper Co.’s Anna Bond! Box includes: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility

About the Author

Though the domain of Jane Austen’s novels was as circumscribed as her life, her wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. She was born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16, 1775. Austen learned mainly at home. At an early age she began writing sketches and satires of popular novels for her family’s entertainment. As a clergyman’s daughter from a well-connected family, she had ample opportunity to study the habits of the middle class, the gentry, and the aristocracy. At 21, she began a novel called “The First Impressions,” an early version of Pride and Prejudice.

In 1801, on her father’s retirement, the family moved to the fashionable resort of Bath. Two years later she sold the first version of Northanger Abby to a London publisher, but the first of her novels to appear in print was Sense and Sensibility, published at her own expense in 1811. Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815) then followed. After her father died in 1805, the family first moved to Southampton then to Chawton Cottage in Hampshire. Despite this relative retirement, Jane Austen was still in touch with a wider world, mainly through her brothers. One had become a very rich country gentleman, another a London banker, and two were naval officers. Though she published her many novels anonymously, she attracted many early and devoted readers, among them the Prince Regent and Sir Walter Scott. In 1816, in declining health, Austen wrote Persuasion and revised Northanger Abby. She left her last work, Sandition, unfinished when she died on July 18, 1817. Her family buried her in Winchester Cathedral. Her brother Henry posthumously announced Austen’s identity as an author to the world and supervised the publication of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion in 1818.

Other Jane Austen Products

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