Jane Austen

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Standard Name: Austen, Jane
Birth Name: Jane Austen
Pseudonym: A Lady
Styled: Mrs Ashton Dennis
JA 's unequalled reputation has led academic canon-makers to set her on a pedestal and scholars of early women's writing to use her as an epoch. For generations she was the first—or the only—woman to be adjudged major. Recent attention has shifted: her balance, good sense, and humour are more taken for granted, and critics have been scanning her six mature novels for traces of the boldness and irreverence which mark her juvenilia. Her two unfinished novels, her letters (which some consider an important literary text in themselves), and her poems and prayers have also received some attention.
Photograph of a colourized print of Jane Austen, from a drawing by a Mr Andrews commissioned by Austen's nephew James Edward Austen Leigh as frontispiece to his "Memoir of Jane Austen", 1870 (fifty years after she died). She is shown seated, with a book on her lap, wearing a blue dress and light brown bonnet.

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Katharine Elwood
Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Griselda Murray , Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford , Hester Lynch Piozzi
Textual Production Patricia Beer
PB 's Reader, I Married Him: A Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen , Charlotte Brontë , Elizabeth Gaskell , and George Eliot was a harbinger of serious critical interest in the women's literary tradition.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research, 1985.
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Textual Production Fay Weldon
FW published Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen, a book whose contents are what its title suggests.
Faulks, Lana. Fay Weldon. Twayne, 1998.
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Textual Production Joanna Trollope
JT 's modernised retelling of Sense and Sensibility (published in October 2013), is one of a series of projected Jane Austen updates. In January 2014 Trollope discussed Austen in a podcast with Fay Weldon in...
Textual Production Joan Aiken
JA published Eliza's Daughter, which ties in with and continuesJane Austen 's Sense and Sensibility, by relating the story of Colonel Brandon's mysterious ward.
“Joan Aiken”. Fantastic Fiction.
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Textual Production Christina Stead
In 1972 CS spent three painful months over a commission to review Quentin Bell 's life of Virginia Woolf . She found many aspects and supposed aspects of Woolf repugnant: her alleged lack of appreciation...
Textual Production Catherine Fanshawe
The letters that CF sent to Anne Grant are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their...
Textual Production Joanna Trollope
JA pursued her Austen connection with a talk on her at a charity Christmas supper held at Chawton House Library on 5 December 2015.
Textual Production Eliza Parsons
EP 's second gothic novel, The Mysterious Warning, A German Tale (another favourite of Austen 's Isabella Thorpe), appeared, with a frontispiece and dedication to the new Princess of Wales.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
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Textual Production Kathleen E. Innes
KEI 's Hampshire Pilgrimages: Men and women who have sojourned in Hampshire, presented brief lives of Austen , Charlotte Mary Yonge , Florence Nightingale , Gilbert White , William Cobbett , and Joseph Stevens .
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
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Textual Production Joan Aiken
JA again partnered herself with Jane Austen , completing the earlier of Austen's two unfinished novels as Emma Watson, The Watsons Completed.
This unfinished novel, a standing temptation to sequel-writers, was first completed by...
Textual Production Joan Aiken
JA published another novel conceived of as complementary to Austen : The Youngest Miss Ward, a prequel to Mansfield Park.
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Textual Production Catherine Gore
In The Cabinet MinisterCG borrowed the foundations of a plot from Jane Austen once more, in the story of an impoverished sister and brother, Bessy and Frank Grenfell, brought up out of reluctant charity...
Textual Production Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Jane Austen in Manhattan was shot on location in New York for Merchant-Ivory Productions , with RPJ 's screenplay.
Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991.
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Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan, 1989.
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Textual Production Alice Meynell
She often used this column to address the works of literary women of the past. She judged Jane Austen inferior to Charlotte Brontë , accepting Brontë's opinion that Austen lacked what she, by implication, possessed:...

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