After revising Sense and Sensibility, she sold the work to a publisher and it was accepted. It was published as a work "By a Lady" and it eventually gave her a profit of one hundred and forty pounds. She soon sold Pride and Prejudice in November of 1812, and became published in January of 1813. Readers began praising her for her work, and she encouraged people to tell others what her name was. Mansfield Park was published in 1814, and became a very popular novel. She had also begun work on Emma, which was sold in December of 1815. After beginning work on Persuasion and finishing it in August of 1816, she began working on her unfinished novel titled Sanditon.
Austen never received any awards for her contribution to British Literature. Women were not highly recognized in that era for their accomplishments, so it is left to us to appreciate the gift of her genius.
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