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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Textual Features Lady Louisa Stuart
LLS 's letters to Scott show her to have been a trusted and perceptive critic of his novels, which she often read before publication. On The Heart of Mid-Lothian she sent him a major critique...
Intertextuality and Influence Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
These provided the pattern for Thomas Moore 's very fashionable Irish Melodies.
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
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Either Moore's or possibly Morgan's are provided by Frank Churchill for Jane Fairfax along with the famous piano in Austen 's Mansfield Park.
Literary responses Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Meanwhile the vogue for The Wild Irish Girl was immense: Dublin ladies were wearing scarlet cloaks and golden bodkins, as Glorvina and as Owenson did.
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
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She became (and remained more or less all her...
Literary responses Henrietta Sykes
Jane Austen joked in a letter about taking this novel as fact. We are just going to set off for Northumberland to be shut up in Widdrington Tower, where there must be two or three...
Education Elizabeth Taylor
Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
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When Betty was eleven...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Taylor
As a child Betty Coles (later ET ) wrote plays (with very short scenes each demanding a new and elaborate setting) and stories. She said she always wanted to be a novelist.
Leclercq, Florence. Elizabeth Taylor. Twayne.
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At twelve...
Reception Elizabeth Taylor
Although she received some glowing reviews throughout her career from some of the most distinguished of her novelistic peers, ET has also been damned with faint praise. She has been called both the modern man's...
Literary responses Jane Taylor
Critic Stuart Curran calls this volume brilliant. He notes the resemblance of its fine irony
Curran, Stuart. “The I Altered”. Romanticism and Feminism, edited by Anne K. Mellor, Indiana University Press, pp. 185-07.
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to that of Jane Austen (despite the fundamental earnestness of Taylor's Dissenting attitudes). Presenting those attitudes as a crucial...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Taylor
Tomkins (whose words open the novel in very much the way that Sterne 's narrator opens A Sentimental Journey) is in search of a wife, but early rules out the heroine from consideration. She...
Dedications Emma Tennant
ET moved into the field of Austen iana with Pemberley, A Sequel to Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen , dedicated to her mother .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Tennant, Emma. Pemberley. St Martin’s Press.
prelims
Textual Production Emma Tennant
ET published two more sequels: Emma in Love, Jane Austen 's Emma Continued, and Elinor and Marianne, A Sequel to Sense and Sensibility.
Tennant, Emma. Emma in Love. Fourth Estate.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Author summary Emma Tennant
ET wrote and published in many genres between 1973 and the second decade of the twenty-first century, and often blended one genre with another.
Wilson, Frances. “Emma Tennant obituary”. theguardian.com.
At first a novelist (who later became a specialist in the...
Textual Production Emma Tennant
In the same year she published Tess, which is based on and continues the story of Hardy 's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
She followed these the next year with a return to Austen
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.
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, No. 3, pp. 5-8.
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Literary responses Angela Thirkell
Reviewers were complimentary. One called the book an amusing pastiche in the manner of Jane Austen .
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth.
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