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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Textual Production | Ali Smith | In addition to these collaborative works, AS
has published an anthology of her own favourite texts, those she sees as essential to her development as a writer. Published twice under different titles—The Reader (2006)... |
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. |
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's unfinished, unpublished early novel The Watsons. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Joan Aiken | JA
published Jane Fairfax: A Novel to Complement Emma, another parallel Jane Austen
. “Joan Aiken”. Fantastic Fiction. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Fay Weldon | FW
's five-part dramatisation of Jane Austen
's Pride and Prejudice was screened. Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research, 1982–1983. 14: 752 |
Textual Production | Joanna Trollope | JT
's modernised retelling of Sense and Sensibility (published in October 2013), is one of a series of projected Jane Austen
updates. In January 2014 Trollope discussed Austen in a podcast with Fay Weldon
in... |
Textual Production | Joan Aiken | JA
published Eliza's Daughter, which ties in with and continuesJane Austen
's Sense and Sensibility, by relating the story of Colonel Brandon's mysterious ward. “Joan Aiken”. Fantastic Fiction. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | P. D. James | James felt that detective stories offer far more detailed and realistic portraits of the way life was lived in the period of their writing than do many novels: Because the detective story is usually set... |
Textual Production | Patricia Beer | PB
's Reader, I Married Him: A Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen
, Charlotte Brontë
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and George Eliot was a harbinger of serious critical interest in the women's literary tradition. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research, 1985. 25 |
Textual Production | Fay Weldon | FW
published Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen, a book whose contents are what its title suggests. Faulks, Lana. Fay Weldon. Twayne, 1998. 71 |
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 | Catherine Fanshawe | The letters that CF
sent to Anne Grant
are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their... |
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
again partnered herself with Jane Austen
, completing the earlier of Austen's two unfinished novels as Emma Watson, The Watsons Completed. This unfinished novel, a standing temptation to sequel-writers, was first completed by... |
Textual Production | Christina Stead | In 1972 CS
spent three painful months over a commission to review Quentin Bell
's life of Virginia Woolf
. She found many aspects and supposed aspects of Woolf repugnant: her alleged lack of appreciation... |
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