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At 17, Jane Austen is living in the village of Steventon, Hampshire, surrounded by a large family. Her father, George, a clergyman on a modest income, has a library of over 500 books - a treasure trove for a budding writer. Immersed in the classics, history and the emerging genre of the novel, Austen begins to tell her own stories.
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