| Timeline |
| 1775 |
Born 16 December in Steventon, England |
| 1785 |
Attends the Abbey School in Reading until 1787 |
| 1790 |
Writes her juvenilia |
| 1801 |
Father retires and family moves to Bath |
| 1802 |
Accepts marriage proposal from Harris Bigg-Wither - changes mind and declines the next day |
| 1805 |
Father dies |
| 1808 |
Family moves to Southampton |
| 1809 |
Moves to the village of Chawton |
| 1811 |
Sense and Sensibility published |
| 1813 |
Pride and Prejudice published |
| 1814 |
Mansfield Park published |
| 1816 |
Emma published, health begins to fail (Addison's Disease) |
| 1817 |
Dies 18 July |
| 1818 |
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion published |
