What era did Jane Austen start writing?

Jane Austen started writing very early on and practiced through her childhood. Whether she did it consciously or not, she practiced her art continually until she was an adult. She began her first published novels when she was about twenty years old, in 1795. Her first income from a novel was in 1803, when she was paid ten pounds for an early manuscript for Northanger Abbey. That book was not published until after she died, and it was not until 1811, when she was 36 that any of her work was published.