Jane Austen
Jane Austen was a novelist from 18th and 19th century England.
According to the Twelfth Doctor, Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in 1796, and not 1797, as Clara wrote on the board in her English lesson around the 2010s, because "she didn't have the time". (TV: The Caretaker)
She 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)
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. 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.
