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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Publishing Anne Grant
Early in her conception of this project, Grant invoked the Spirit or the Muse of Biography: on what calm elevation dost thou reside, surrounded by the powers of just discrimination, candid discussion, and true delineation...
Publishing Maria Jane Jewsbury
The Athenæum published MJJ 's essay on the literary career of Jane Austen , thought to be the first substantial, formal, printed comment on her work by a woman.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
67
, No. 1, The Library, pp. 450-73.
465
Publishing Maria Jane Jewsbury
Henry Austen , the source of many of MJJ 's opinions about his sister , recycled parts of this piece for Bentley 's new edition of Austen 's novels in 1833. (He omitted MJJ 's...
Publishing George Eliot
In submitting this anonymous manuscript to Blackwood , Lewes invoked the names of Oliver Goldsmith (author of The Vicar of Wakefield) and of Jane Austen . The firm of Blackwood turned out to be...
Publishing Dervla Murphy
Thinking of her father's years of hoping and struggling to publish his novels, DM said she felt her life had been chosen as the medium through which all the strivings of generations of scribbling Murphys...
Publishing Ann Thicknesse
AT was a composer of music as well as a performer and writer. Jane Austen transcribed her composition The Fandango into book two of the family music collection now at Jane Austen's House Museum.
Grover, Danielle. “’Partly Admired &amp; Partly Laugh’d at at every tea table’: The Case of Ann Thicknesse (née Ford) and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The School for Fashion</span> (1800)”. Female Spectator, Vol.
12
, No. 3, pp. 5-8.
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Publishing Margaret Drabble
On Jane Austen 's birthday, MD 's The Dower House at Kellynch: A Somerset Romance appeared in the journal Persuasions.
Drabble, Margaret. “The Dower House at Kellynch: A Somerset Romance”. Persuasions, Vol.
15
, pp. 75-88.
75-88
Publishing E. H. Young
This was the first novel she wrote after moving from Bristol to London. It went on to a further change of title in the United States, where it appeared in 1927 as The...
Publishing Cassandra Cooke
CC must have submitted the manuscript of her novel to the publisher Cawthorn well before October 1798, when she confided to her young cousin Jane Austen her annoyance over Cawthorn 's delays. At this date...
Publishing Aldous Huxley
Later that year he was hired again to adapt Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice for the big screen—though when England and Germany went to war he briefly tried to renege on the contract, feeling...
Publishing Flora Thompson
The Ladies Companion printed most of a winning competition entry by FT (who was not yet an author), an essay required to capture in 300 words her understanding of Jane Austen 's success.
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale.
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Publishing Ethel Wilson
The book was produced in England but copies shipped to Canada bore a Canadian imprint.
Stouck, David. Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography. University of Toronto Press.
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Publication was delayed for some time. Upon first receiving the manuscript in early 1945, EW 's editors at Macmillan
Author summary E. M. Delafield
EMD 's charming, witty novels are characterized by acute observation and good-humoured social satire. Her stories often draw from her own experiences—as an Edwardian débutante, a novice in a religious order, a war worker, and...
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...
Author summary Joan Aiken
JA was a popular and successful later twentieth-century writer of short stories and longer fictions for children, most of which are fantasies or have strong supernatural or mystery elements. She also wrote adult novels (both...

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