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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Education | Winifred Peck | Later, when she was a seasoned schoolgirl, her stepmother (concerned at the narrowness of the teaching she and her siblings had received) set about communicating some general knowledge, including literary knowledge, and introduced authors new... |
Education | F. Tennyson Jesse | |
Education | Sarah Orne Jewett | She read extensively as a child, and came early to authors as diverse as Jane Austen
, George Eliot
, Margaret Oliphant
, Henry Fielding
, Laurence Sterne
, Elizabeth Gaskell
and Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Education | Susan Tweedsmuir | She was, however, always reading as a child: she and her sister had few books, but knew by heart whole chapters of the ones they did have. As a child Susan hated Mrs Mortimer
's... |
Education | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Her family's financial troubles prevented EJP
from receiving a formal or thorough education. In her own words, education was not within the reach of the gently born who were also poor, therefore I had little... |
Education | Mary Lavin | ML
took her MA from University College, Dublin, with a thesis on Jane Austen
for which she received first class honours. Peterson, Richard F. Mary Lavin. Twayne. 20 |
Education | Flora Macdonald Mayor | Although FMM
's father was, for the most part, more concerned with her fragile health than her academic development, the twin sisters received some home-schooling from their mother to quite a high level, since she... |
Education | Julia O'Faolain | JOF
's mother used to tell her suspense-driven fairy-tales, most of which were later published. O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber. 6 O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber. 2-3 |
Education | Alice Meynell | In the summer of 1852 Elizabeth and Alice Thompson (later AM
) began their education under their father's instruction. Recording her daughters' lessons, Christiana Thompson writes, Dear little angels do their writing . .... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Linskill | Mary Jane Linskill had two sisters and three brothers, besides, says Stamp, four other siblings who died very young. She was four years older than Elizabeth, the next to survive. Years later a baby named... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Carola Oman | Having worked before her marriage with the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants
(founded by Octavia Hill
), Mary Oman worked in Oxford for innumerable charities including the Church Missionary Society
. Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton. 112 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Blanche Warre Cornish | He later assumed his mother's birth-name, becoming Warre Cornish. He was older than his wife by seventeen years, and had fallen love with her when she was only sixteen.They had eight children together: in the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Hubback | Once she became a writer herself, CH
drew some capital from her relationship to her famous aunt, Jane Austen
, who died the year before she was born. Tradition later said that as a little... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah, Lady Pennington | Her father, John Moore
, was an apothecary practising in the fashionable resort of Bath in Somerset, who seems to have become rich in his practice. His name and place of residence appears on... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | Mary Ann Evans (later GE
) accepted a proposal of marriage from a young artist, still unidentified, only to withdraw it when she apparently realised that her eager imagination had attributed to him attractions that... |
Timeline
By Christmas 1869: Francis Galton, mathematician, scientist,...
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By Christmas 1869
Francis Galton
, mathematician, scientist, and eugenicist, published Hereditary Genius: An Enquiry into its Laws and Consequences,
1872: US writer Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncy,...
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1872
US writer Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncy, or Chauncey, Woolsey) published her highly popular and influential story for girls entitled What Katy Did.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
February 1906: Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's...
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February 1906
Publisher J. M. Dent
launched Everyman's Library, aiming to reprint
1,000 classic titles: the first year's 155 volumes included Æschylus
, Shakespeare
, Jane Austen
practically complete, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell.
169
1924: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth...
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1924
Leonard
and Virginia Woolf
at the Hogarth Press
published The Rector's Daughter, a novel by F. M. (or Flora Macdonald) Mayor
.
1937: Beatrice Kean Seymour wrote and published...
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1937
Beatrice Kean Seymour
wrote and published a biography entitiled Jane Austen
, Study for a Portrait.
22 July 1949: The house in the village of Chawton in Hampshire...
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22 July 1949
The house in the village of Chawton in Hampshire where Jane Austen
lived with her mother and sister from 1809 until her death was opened to the public, having been bought for three thousand pounds...
17 November 1958: The sale began at Sotheby's of the collection...
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17 November 1958
The sale began at Sotheby's
of the collection of first editions built up by the bibliographer Michael Sadleir
, who had recently died.
23 April 1996: The annual BAFTA (British Academy of Film...
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23 April 1996
The annual BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television
) Awards were presented at the LondonPalladium
in celebration of one hundred years of British film-making.
By late 1996: Helen Fielding hit the best-selling jackpot...
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By late 1996
Helen Fielding
hit the best-selling jackpot when her novelBridget Jones's Diary (originally a newspaper column begun the previous year) was published as a book.
: Oneword Radio, with offices in London, was...
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By Summer2000
Oneword Radio
, with offices in London, was set up to broadcast to readers: the bulk of its programming came from audiobooks read serially, sometimes though not always abridged.
By 11 May 2002: John Murray, publishers of Austen and Byron...
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By 11 May 2002
John Murray
, publishers of Austen
and Byron
among many others, and one of the few independent publishers remaining after rapid change in the industry, sold out to bookselling chain W. H. Smith
.
15 April 2003: Iranian academic Azar Nafisi published Reading...
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15 April 2003
Iranian academic Azar Nafisi
published Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, a remarkable work of social and political commentary intertwined with and expressed through literary criticism.
July 2003: Chawton House in the village of Chawton in...
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July 2003
Chawton House in the village of Chawton in Hampshire, once owned by Jane Austen
's brother Edward Austen Knight
, opened its doors as Chawton House Library
, a research centre in women's writing.
16 April 2007: Novelist Yann Martel began a project of sending...
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16 April 2007
Novelist Yann Martel
began a project of sending a book every two weeks to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
together with an admonitory letter; on a website he recorded the books sent and gave the...
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