On 16 December 1775, Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, to Reverend George and Cassandra Leigh Austen. She was the seventh of eight children. 

The image of Steventon Parsonage comes from James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of Jane Austen, 2nd ed. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1871. Project Gutenberg, 7 December 2006.