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 Production Muriel Spark
Spark's first Brontë project was a group biography of the whole family, including the parents. In June 1949 she felt like a pregnant tigress with this work. It was to be published by Lindsay Drummond
Textual Production Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ published a critical biography of another author of the past, Jane Austen , for some of whose works she also wrote introductions.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1910 (10 September 1938): 580
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Olivia Manning
In 1971 OM edited a volume of Romanian Short Stories for Oxford University Press . She also wrote an introduction for a Pan edition of Austen 's Northanger Abbey, published in 1979.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW published a crisp
Shields, Carol. Jane Austen. Viking, 2001.
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little book of criticism titled Jane Austen , 1775-1817 for the British Book News series Writers and Their Work.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research, 1985.
34: 278
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1989.
244-5
Textual Production Margaret Kennedy
During the early 1960s MK read her paper Harriett Mozley : A Forerunner of Charlotte Yonge, at the Charlotte M. Yonge Society , of which, along with many of her writing friends, she had...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
Here QDL highlights Oliphant's anti-sentimental, critical view of Victorian county town insitutions and relations, and the comparatively independent, ironic attitude of the unstereotypical heroine, Lucilla Marjoribanks (large, strong, unsentimental, insubordinate to men and with...
Textual Production Naomi Alderman
In another article of similar date (early 2017), Alderman praises an early love, the webcomic, formerly the comic strip. Her favourites include as Kate Beaton 's webcomic Hark a Vagrant, which often, as in...
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
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
MRM took a keen interest in the reputations of women writers. She planned in 1821 to write an essay on Miss Austen 's novels, which are by no means valued as they deserve
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
1: 357
Textual Production Rebecca West
RW produced several introductions to novels by other writers, including Jonathan Cape 's editions of Kathleen Coyle 's Liv (1929), Jane Austen 's Northanger Abbey (1932), and Sarah Orne Jewett 's The Only Rose and Other Tales (1937).
West, Rebecca. “Bibliography”. Rebecca West: A Celebration, edited by Samuel Hynes, Viking Press, 1977, pp. 761-6.
764-5
Textual Production Catherine Hubback
CH published her first book, a novel entitled The Younger Sister, which recapitulates and completes her aunt Jane Austen 's unfinished, unpublished early novel The Watsons.
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Textual Production Noel Streatfeild
In 1961 NS had the honour of appearing in Bodley Head 's series of monographs on children's writers, where she joined such household names as Mary Louisa Molesworth , Juliana Horatia Ewing , Lewis Carroll
Textual Production Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ contributed an introduction to a volume, the seventh in John Lehmann 's The Chiltern Library, published in 1947 and containing two titles by Elizabeth Gaskell . In her introduction to Thackeray 's Vanity...
Textual Production Lady Margaret Sackville
LMS edited a volume of selections from Jane Austen, for which she wrote an introduction.
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Textual Production E. M. Forster
EMF published Abinger Harvest, a collection of essays which includes Notes on the English Character, several pieces on India, and criticism of particular writers, including Jane Austen .
Burra, Peter. “Mr E. M. Forster Past & Present”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1781, 21 Mar. 1936, p. 239.
239
Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean. A Bibliography of E. M. Forster. Clarendon, 1985.
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