When did Jane Austen start writting?

Answer 1

Jane Austen seems to have begun writing in about 1787, when she was eleven or twelve years old. She began work on Elinor and Marianne, a novel consisting of a series of letters and which she later reworked into Sense and Sensibility, sometime before 1796, so she was probably in her late teens when she wrote it. We do not know when she did the edition that was eventually published in 1811.