Among English writers, we might list Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, and Keats as contemporaries of Jane Austen.
Of course, the King of her time was George III, and she lived the last part of her life under the Regency. The Napoleonic Wars were going on during much of her life, and so she would have recognized the names of such people as Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington.
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