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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Joanna Trollope
JA pursued her Austen connection with a talk on her at a charity Christmas supper held at Chawton House Library on 5 December 2015.
Textual Production Joan Aiken
JA published another novel conceived of as complementary to Austen : The Youngest Miss Ward, a prequel to Mansfield Park.
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Textual Production Margaret Drabble
MD made her journalism debut early. In 1967 she wrote in the Guardian about the accomplishment of the sexual revolution brought about by the contraceptive pill. It was a major component of women's liberation, she...
Textual Production Fay Weldon
In 2003 FW contributed a foreword to a new edition of Austen 's juvenile Love and Freindship (which, unusually, corrects the title to Love and Friendship).
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Textual Production Barbara Hofland
The learnedness of allusion and the Austen -like style of satiric storytelling are both unlike BH 's usual manner. It was not her usual practice, either, to publish anonymously, without mention of other works.
Textual Production Penelope Fitzgerald
PF 's publications in the scholarly field include an edition of The Novel on Blue Paper, an unfinished, unpublished work by William Morris , 1982, and the introduction to a new issue of Oxford University Press
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
QDL was arranging her lectures and essays on Jane Austen into book form. Despite interest from publishers and although QDL continued to write regularly on Austen, the monograph was never completed.
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995.
263, 339-40
Textual Production P. D. James
PDJ published a historical detective novel she said she wrote for fun and in order to combine two great enthusiasms (detection and Jane Austen ): Death Comes to Pemberley, a sequel to Pride and Prejudice.
qtd. in
Crown, Sarah. “A life in writing: PD James”. Guardian.co.uk, 4 Nov. 2011.
Textual Production Joan Aiken
JA published a pendant to yet another Austen novel: Lady Catherine's Necklace, which foregrounds minor characters from Pride and Prejudice and adds a number of new ones.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Brigid Brophy
Some items are reprinted from Don't Never Forget, including a piece on Jane Austen , fiercely condemnatory of her cult following (which BB finds demeaning and condescending), which concludes with unreserved praise: I think...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Kennedy
Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Penelope Fitzgerald
It includes Fitzgerald's comments on works by Jane Austen , George Eliot , Margaret Oliphant , Barbara Pym , Carol Shields , and Amy Tan , as well as on a number of recent literary...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catherine Hutton
CH was reading Jane Austen : at this stage she saw Austen's novels as trifles, but agreeable ones.
Hutton, Catherine. Reminiscences of a Gentlewoman of the Last Century. Editor Beale, Catherine Hutton, Cornish Brothers, 1891.
175
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Jaeger
In an amusing fantasy entitled Trial of Jane Austen the accused stands charged with masquerading as a great writer.
Jaeger, Muriel. Shepherd’s Trade. Arthur H. Stockwell, 1965.
118
Pompous or foolish witnesses accuse her of ignoring national politics, social problems, sex, professional careerism...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Susan Ferrier
SF 's letters deal mainly with day-to-day occurrences, but her literary opinons are always worth having. She comments on several works by Lady Charlotte Campbell (later Bury) . Reading Austen 's Emma in 1816 (the...

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