Literary genius, Jane Austen, began her work as a young teenager, and wrote six novels in her life time. Originally, she wrote under the pseudonym “By a Lady”, as in the 1800’s a woman seeking to become a writer was deemed degrading to their femininity. Therefore, female written novels would be published anonymously. It wasn’t until after her death, that she was revealed as actually being a woman. 

Despite little fame during her lifetime, she changed the minds of those that believed women could not write, let alone standout novels such as these. Her work has since inspired many films, including Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. A role model for women writers, and non-women alike.