Steventon : 1775 - 1801 |
| ca. 1788 - 1793 | Juvenilia (including The History of England, Love and Freindship, Catharine ...) |
| 1794 or 1795 | Lady Susan, without the conclusion |
| ca. 1795 | Elinor and Marianne, the earliest version of Sense and Sensibility, written in epistolary form |
| October 1796 - August 1797 | Composition of First Impressions, original version of Pride and Prejudice |
| November 1797 | Sense and Sensibility begun in its present form |
| 1798 - 1799 | Drafting of Northanger Abbey (then called Susan, later Catherine) |
Bath and Southampton : 1801 - 1809 |
| 1803 | Susan prepared and offered for publication |
| 1803 - 1804 | The Watsons (unfinished) |
| ca. 1805 | Fair copy of Lady Susan (and possibly composition of the conclusion) |
Chawton : 1809 - 1817 |
| 1809 - 1811 | Sense and Sensibility revised and prepared for publication |
| November 1811 | Publication of Sense and Sensibility |
| ca. 1812 | Radical revision of Pride and Prejudice |
| February 1811 - summer 1813 | Composition of Mansfield Park |
| January 1813 | Publication of Pride and Prejudice |
| May 1814 | Publication of Mansfield Park |
| January 1814 - March 1815 | Composition of Emma |
| ca. 1815 | Plan of a Novel |
| December 1815 - January 1816 | Publication of Emma |
| August 1815 - August 1816 | Composition of Persuasion |
| January - March 1817 | Initial work on the unfinished Sanditon |
| December 1817 - January 1818 | Posthumous publication of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
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