Jane Austen began writing her last novel, Sanditon, in 1817, Sanditon, in 1817, wrote 12 Chapters then put it aside and with her death the same year, never finished it. Sanditon on Reflection is a romance novel based on Jane Austen's work and tells the rest of the story as seen through the eyes of Jane Austen's heroine, a young woman by the name of Charlotte Heywood.