Jane Austen Statistics

How many copies of Jane Austen’s books have been sold?

• Over 30 million copies of Jane Austen’s books have been sold worldwide.
• Austen’s most popular best selling novel, Pride and Prejudice, sold over 20 million copies alone.
• The First edition of Emma, containing a handwritten message from Austen, was sold for $424,794 on auction, making it the most expensive book by Austen.
• The First edition of Pride and Prejudice from 1813 was sold for $100,000 on auction in New York’s Swann Auction Galleries:
  • Sense and Sensibility’s first edition was sold for $81,250
  • Emma was sold for $27,500
  • Mansfield Park’s first edition was sold for $20,000
  • Northanger Abbey and Persuasion both were bidded at $11,875

• For her life, Jane austen earned under 700 from publishing and sales of her novels, which amounts to $84,320 in today’s value (2022).
• Accounting for taxes, Austen netted around $66,398 from publishing of her books during her lifetime.
• Austen sold rights for her fiction novel Pride and Prejudice for $10,300 (2022 equivalent).
• She earned $14,637 (2022 equivalent) from sales of Sense and Sensibility.
• Within 15 years after her death, her novels generated over $200,000 (2022 value equivalent) in income, 2.4 times more than her lifetime earnings from publishing.

How many books did Jane Austen publish?

• Before her death in 1817, Jane Austen published 4 novels, with another 3 novels completed but not published after her death.
• Aside from 7 completed novels, Austen has 2 unfinished novels (The Watsons and Sandition).
• There are also 3 volumes of Jane Austen’s juvenilia: the first contains 16 short stories, the second has 9, and the third contains 2.

Jane Ausaten novels in order

Title	Published	Chapters	Pages	Audiobook length
Sense and Sensibility	1811	50	352	11 hrs 25 min
Pride and Prejudice	1813	61	432	11 hrs 35 min
Mansfield Park	1814	48	570	14 hrs 26 min
Emma	1815	55	414	14 hrs 45 min
Northanger Abbey	1818	31	288	6 hrs 6 min
Persuasion	1818	24	126	8 hrs 43 min
Lady Susan	1871	41	108	2 hrs 27 min

Characters in Jane Austen’s books

• 124 distinctive characters appear in Jane Austen’s novels, 51 primary characters and 73 secondary characters.
• 69 out of 124 characters in Jane Austen’s novels are women, or 55.6%.
• Male characters in Austen’s novels make up for 44.4% of all characters, appearing 55 times in total.
• 30 out of 51 primary characters in Jane Austen books are women, or 58.8%.
• 39 out of 73 secondary characters in Jane Austen novels are women, or 53.4%.

List of all characters from Jane Austen’s novels

Title	Character	Primary/secondary	Gender
Sense and Sensibility	Miss Elinor Dashwood	Primary	Female
Sense and Sensibility	Miss Marianne Dashwood	Primary	Female
Sense and Sensibility	Mr. Edward Ferrars	Primary	Male
Sense and Sensibility	Colonel Christopher Brandon	Primary	Male
Sense and Sensibility	Mr. John Willoughby	Primary	Male
Sense and Sensibility	Mrs. Jennings	Primary	Female
Sense and Sensibility	Miss Lucy Steele	Primary	Female
Sense and Sensibility	Mrs. Henry Dashwood	Secondary	Female
Sense and Sensibility	Miss Margaret Dashwood	Secondary	Female
Sense and Sensibility	Mr. John Dashwood	Secondary	Male
Sense and Sensibility	Mrs. Fanny Dashwood	Secondary	Female
Sense and Sensibility	Mr. Robert Ferrars	Secondary	Male
Sense and Sensibility	Sir John Middleton	Secondary	Male
Sense and Sensibility	Lady Middleton	Secondary	Female
Sense and Sensibility	Mr. Palmer	Secondary	Male
Sense and Sensibility	Mrs. Charlotte Palmer	Secondary	Female
Sense and Sensibility	Miss Anne Steele	Secondary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy	Primary	Male
Pride and Prejudice	Miss Elizabeth Bennet	Primary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Mr. Charles Bingley	Primary	Male
Pride and Prejudice	Miss Jane Bennet	Primary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Miss Caroline Bingley	Primary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Mr. George Wickham	Primary	Male
Pride and Prejudice	Lydia Bennet	Primary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Mr. Bennet	Primary	Male
Pride and Prejudice	Mrs. Bennet	Primary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Mr. Gardiner	Primary	Male
Pride and Prejudice	Mrs. Gardiner	Primary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Charlotte Lucas	Primary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Mr. Collins	Primary	Male
Pride and Prejudice	Lady Catherine de Bourgh	Primary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Kitty Bennet	Secondary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Mary Bennet	Secondary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Sir William Lucas	Secondary	Male
Pride and Prejudice	Lady Lucas	Secondary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Maria Lucas	Secondary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Colonel Fitzwilliam	Secondary	Male
Pride and Prejudice	Georgiana Darcy	Secondary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Miss Anne de Bourgh	Secondary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Mrs. Hurst	Secondary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Mr. Hurst	Secondary	Male
Pride and Prejudice	Mrs. Phillips	Secondary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Colonel Forster	Secondary	Male
Pride and Prejudice	Mrs. Forster	Secondary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Captain Carter	Secondary	Male
Pride and Prejudice	Lieutenant Denny	Secondary	Male
Pride and Prejudice	Mary King	Secondary	Female
Pride and Prejudice	Hill	Secondary	Female
Mansfield Park	Miss Fanny Price	Primary	Female
Mansfield Park	Mr. Edmund Bertram	Primary	Male
Mansfield Park	Miss Mary Crawford	Primary	Female
Mansfield Park	Mr. Henry Crawford	Primary	Male
Mansfield Park	Sir Thomas Bertram	Secondary	Male
Mansfield Park	Lady Bertram	Secondary	Female
Mansfield Park	Mr. Tom Bertram	Secondary	Male
Mansfield Park	Miss Maria Bertram	Secondary	Female
Mansfield Park	Miss Julia Bertram	Secondary	Female
Mansfield Park	Mrs. Norris	Secondary	Female
Mansfield Park	Mr. William Price	Secondary	Male
Mansfield Park	Miss Susan Price	Secondary	Female
Mansfield Park	Mr. Rushworth	Secondary	Male
Mansfield Park	Mr. Yates	Secondary	Male
Emma	Miss Emma Woodhouse	Primary	Female
Emma	Mr. George Knightley	Primary	Male
Emma	Miss Harriet Smith	Primary	Female
Emma	Mr. Frank Churchill	Primary	Male
Emma	Miss Jane Fairfax	Primary	Female
Emma	Mr. Woodhouse	Secondary	Male
Emma	Isabella Knightley	Secondary	Female
Emma	Mr. John Knightley	Secondary	Male
Emma	Mrs. Weston	Secondary	Female
Emma	Mr. Weston	Secondary	Male
Emma	Mrs. Churchill	Secondary	Female
Emma	Miss Bates	Secondary	Female
Emma	Mr. Elton	Secondary	Male
Emma	Mrs. Elton	Secondary	Female
Emma	Mr. Robert Martin	Secondary	Male
Persuasion	Miss Anne Elliot	Primary	Female
Persuasion	Captain Frederick Wentworth	Primary	Male
Persuasion	Lady Russell	Primary	Female
Persuasion	Mr. William Elliot	Primary	Male
Persuasion	Miss Lousia Musgrove	Primary	Female
Persuasion	Sir Walter Elliot	Secondary	Male
Persuasion	Miss Elizabeth Elliot	Secondary	Female
Persuasion	Mrs. Mary Musgrove	Secondary	Female
Persuasion	Mr. Charles Musgrove	Secondary	Male
Persuasion	Miss Henrietta Musgrove	Secondary	Female
Persuasion	Mr. Shepherd	Secondary	Male
Persuasion	Mrs. Clay	Secondary	Female
Persuasion	Admiral Croft	Secondary	Male
Persuasion	Mrs. Croft	Secondary	Female
Persuasion	Mr. Charles Hayter	Secondary	Male
Persuasion	Captain James Benwick	Secondary	Male
Persuasion	Captain Harville	Secondary	Male
Persuasion	Mrs. Harville	Secondary	Female
Persuasion	Mrs. Smith	Secondary	Female
Persuasion	Lady Dalrymple	Secondary	Female
Persuasion	Miss Carteret	Secondary	Female
Northanger Abbey	Miss Catherine Morland	Primary	Female
Northanger Abbey	Mr. Henry Tilney	Primary	Male
Northanger Abbey	Mr. James Morland	Primary	Male
Northanger Abbey	Miss Isabella Thorpe	Primary	Female
Northanger Abbey	Mr. John Thorpe	Primary	Male
Northanger Abbey	Miss Eleanor Tilney	Primary	Female
Northanger Abbey	Mrs. Allen	Secondary	Female
Northanger Abbey	Mr. Allen	Secondary	Male
Northanger Abbey	General Tilney	Secondary	Male
Northanger Abbey	Captain Frederick Tilney	Secondary	Male
Lady Susan	Lady Susan Vernon	Primary	Female
Lady Susan	Frederica Vernon	Primary	Female
Lady Susan	Catherine Vernon	Primary	Female
Lady Susan	Charles Vernon	Primary	Male
Lady Susan	Reginald De Courcy	Primary	Male
Lady Susan	Lady De Courcy	Primary	Female
Lady Susan	Sir Reginald De Courcy	Primary	Male
Lady Susan	Alicia Johnson	Primary	Female
Lady Susan	Sir James Martin	Primary	Male
Lady Susan	Mr. Mainwaring	Primary	Male
Lady Susan	Mrs. Mainwaring	Primary	Female
Lady Susan	Miss Maria Mainwaring	Primary	Female
Lady Susan	Charles Smith	Secondary	Male
Lady Susan	Miss Summers	Secondary	Female
Lady Susan	James	Secondary	Male
Lady Susan	Wilson	Secondary	Female