Jane Austen born December 16, 1775, during the Revolutionary War in Winchester, England. She was a great writer of mystery romances. — Pride and Prejudice is a good intro because it is short. Sense and Sensibility is the better effort. Emma and the great Persuasion are solid literary efforts with the latter her best. Northanger Abbey is an early work with not much there as it is a copy of Italian novellas of the time. Lady Susan, is her epistolary attempt at replicating Samuel’s Richardson’s novel with Pamela, was failure and can safely be ignored; read Pamela instead. * Mansfield…