In August 1797, #JaneAusten finished writing #FirstImpressions (as we know #PrideAndPrejudice). I don't have an exact date so I picked August 10! Austen began writing it in October 1796, when she was 20, after she visited her brother Edward, and his wife, in Kent. It was originally believed to have been written in epistolary form. The novel was rejected without the publisher having seen the manuscript. 1/