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Jane Austen, also called Jane Halidom, was a novelist from 18th and 19th century England who was resurrected in the City of the Saved.
Biography
Austen assisted the First Doctor, Steven Taylor and Vicki Pallister in defeating a Phoenix in London in February 1814. The Doctor was pleased to meet Austen, declaring his admiration for all of her novels. Austen was surprised by this, having at that time only written two novels which had been published anonymously. (AUDIO: Frostfire)
The Eleventh Doctor said Austen was "not much of a kisser" (COMIC: Convention Special) while Clara later described Austen as a "phenomenal kisser". (TV: The Magician's Apprentice) Clara also said that she and Jane played pranks on one another. (TV: Face the Raven)
She was 41 when she died. Jane was resurrected in the City of the Saved, where she appeared as roughly 35 years old, and she married Rex Halidom. In Sullispar District, she encouraged him to accept Major Ignotus' military summons during the Civil War. When Una hijacked data from a teleporter and duplicated Rex, he worried that Jane would never learn to accept the fact that there were now two of him. (PROSE: A Hundred Words from a Civil War)
Legacy
Charley Pollard had read lots of Jane Austen. (AUDIO: Seasons of Fear)
Clara Oswald was interrupted by the Twelfth Doctor during a lesson about Pride and Prejudice when he corrected her about the date of writing of the novel. She tried to guess about a rendezvous between the Doctor and the author, but the former countered he knew that as he had read her biography in a copy of the book. (TV: The Caretaker)
Behind the scenes
According to The Brilliant Book 2012, a book that contains non-narrative based information, in an alternate universe where all of history happened at once, Austen teased of a massacre in her book Emmerdale.