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.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Material Conditions of Writing | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | This venture was triggered by the appearance on the market of Austen
's juvenile play Sir Charles Grandison, itself an adaptation from the novel by Samuel Richardson
. London Weekend Television
acquired an option... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | The film shows the play being auctioned, and bought by an Off-Broadway group who produce it in Absurdist style. While they work at it, period motifs in the plot (notably the abduction of Harriet Byron)... |
Literary responses | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | RPJ
was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976, the Neil Gunn International Fellowship in earlier 1979, a MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1983, and a CBE in 1998. Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan, 1989. 242, 3 Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991. 25 Gates, Anita. “Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Screenwriter, Dies at 85”. The New York Times, 3 Apr. 2013. |
Leisure and Society | Jennifer Johnston | Although JJ
says she is always reading contemporary young men and women writers coming out of Ireland today, Moloney, Caitriona et al. Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices From the Field. Syracuse University Press, 2003. 67 |
Reception | Jennifer Johnston | Critic Imhof Rüdiger
attacked JJ
(then the author of seven published novels) in 1985, arguing that she urgently needed to find new themes, and that her work was being compromised through self-repetition. Imhof, Rüdiger. “’A Little Bit of Ivory, Two Inches Wide’: The Small World of Jennifer Johnston’s Fiction”. Etudes Irlandaises, Vol. 10 , Dec. 1985, pp. 129-44. |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. B. C. Jones | The book positions itself in relation to cultural, social and emotional markers that are not those of a majority in later times. Helen and Felicia read Northanger Abbey aloud, and Helen admits it to be... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia Kavanagh | In this second work of women's literary history, JK
once again limits herself to the novel. Her canon comprises ten authors, from Aphra Behn
to Sydney Morgan
by way of Sarah Fielding
, Frances Burney |
Reception | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Where her first two novels had been well reviewed, this one received not a single notice for three weeks (probably on account of its late-autumn publication date). SKS
feared she was being passed over or... |
Textual Features | Sheila Kaye-Smith | This is, like Sussex Gorse, the story of a man driven by monomaniacal ambition, and like Jane Austen
's Sanditon (from which it could hardly be more different in tone) the story of a... |
Textual Features | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Here she relates significant moments in her life to what she was reading at the time. She says that her reading, directed at first by chance and the choices of others, later moved towards what... |
Textual Production | Sheila Kaye-Smith | With her friend G. B. Stern
, SKS
published More Talk of Jane Austen, proposed by Kaye-Smith to follow their earlier Talking of Jane Austen, 1943. British Book News. British Council. (1951): 52 Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958. 89 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2538 (22 September 1950): 595 |
Author summary | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Writing mostly in the first half of the twentieth century, SKS
published thirty-one novels, in addition to about twenty works in other genres: biography, criticism, saints' lives, country lore, and books of memoirs (one of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Molly Keane | This, like Good Behaviour, is a black comedy set in a crumbling Anglo-Irishbig house, Durraghglass. Unlike Good Behaviour it sets its protagonist family (of the same generation as Aroon St Charles) in... |
Textual Features | Annie Keary | All these lives and more are woven together. Mrs Edgecombe has been independently managing a large estate, and she and Walter cannot agree: Clemency could not help noticing the quiet masculine assumption of being necessarily... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | MAK
published, anonymously, her first, part-epistolary, religious novel, The Favourite of Nature: A Tale, which reflects the influence of her admired Jane Austen
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 521 |
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