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In April 1780 the author's cousin Edward Francisco Burney illustrated Evelina in three stained drawings. The one for volume two shows the heroine in her mood of depression after returning home from her visit...

The literary-critical preface, unusually for such a satirical work, bears her intials. Green says she has reasons for concealing her name, but will affix the REAL initials of that name to this advertisement. ....

It had a preface and notes by Maria Edgeworth , who did not know ML very well personally but was impressed by the book. The Chawton House Library copy is one presented by Edgeworth to...

In November 2011 MR edited Wooing Mr Wickham, a collection of stories inspired by Jane Austen or by Chawton House. Roberts also selected the stories for this volume from those submitted to the...

Since some scholars believe that SB was not a woman but a pseudonym, other names have been put forward for authorship. They include Charles Gildon (who supplied the dedicatory epistle), or the Jacobite translator and...

Violet Fane 's inscribed copy is now at Chawton House Library .

Some of MC 's manuscripts (owned by Rosamund Brunel Gotch in 1937) are now in the Bodleian Library . A collection of her sketches (including many of the drawings which accompanied her journal of her...

MS began to work seriously on this novel in late 1820. The Chawton Library copy is one presented by the author's father, With Mr. Godwin 's Compliments. Godwin chose the work's title, as he...

The frontispiece depicts her standing in a classically architectural niche flanked by figures of Athena and Apollo. Lines of poetry below advise the onlooker not to concentrate on her beauty but View her Soul's Picture...

A number of letters of MMS are extant. Chawton House Library holds a dozen of them.

This novel was advertised as soon to be published in July (at which date the title was to be Laure; or, The Parisian), and as recently published on 30 October. It has a...

Chawton House Library has acquired two unpublished stories by MMS . One, of 128 pages, untitled but beginning There is a beautiful valley, is dated to 1828. It comprises about 20,000 words, of which only...

After four and a half years they had a permanent home again, provided for them by Edward Austen Knight on his Chawton estate. The red-brick cottage stands in the main road of the village, only...

Benjamin Constant , formerly the lover of GS , represented her in his novel Adolphe as a woman whose mind was the most wide-ranging of any woman ever, and perhaps of any man, and...

The borrowed text expands in a few places (but only in the early pages) and renames the characters (making a few slips), but otherwise changes nothing. This barefaced plagiarism remained undetected until Bonnie Kulik discovered...