All of the books by Jane Austen published during her lifetime were anonymous. Two, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, were not published until after she died, and they were under her own name. They came out together.
1813 and 1817 under her real name
Jane Austen started writing "First Impressions" in 1796. In 1813, after she revised it, it was published under the current title of "Pride and Prejudice".
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When Jane Austen started writing Northanger Abbey, she called the book Susan. She revised the book some time after she first wrote it, and rights to it were purchased by a publisher, still under the name Susan, in 1803. It remained unpublished, and the rights were repurchased by Austen's brother in 1816. It was published in 1817, after Austen died, and the title under which it was published seems to have been one her brother chose.
Jane Austen's first two books to be published, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, were published by Thomas Egerton. The rest of her books were published by John Murray, who was a better known publisher.
Sense and Sensibility was Jane Austen's first published book in 1811. The manuscript was published through Thomas Egerton of the Military Library publishing house. When the book was published, the author was written as only, "a Lady". A second edition was later advertised in 1813.
Yes, she used 'a lady' as her pen name when publishing Sense and Sensibility.
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No, but she did edit the book. The book was written by a teenager and it is published under anonymous to protect her identity.
Jane Austen started work on Pride and Prejudice, under the working title of First Impressions, in 1796. She finished the first draft in 1797. Between that time and 1812, when it was accepted for publication, it may have been worked on, but certainly it was revised before being published in 1813. We do not have any way of knowing how much time the author put into the work.
The name of the first newspaper that was not published under British authority is the "Pennsylvania Evening Post," which was first published in Philadelphia in 1759.
Jane Austen was not "discovered" in the traditional sense. She was a well-known author during her lifetime, publishing her works under her own name. After her death, her popularity grew as readers rediscovered and appreciated her novels.