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 Rose Tremain
RT published a novel entitled Music and Silence, which she dedicated to her daughter, Eleanor.
Scholar John Mullan has related the title to others employing two abstract nouns, like Elizabeth Inchbald 's Nature and...
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR 's A Book of Sibyls considered the lives and works of Anna Letitia Barbauld , Maria Edgeworth , Amelia Opie , and Jane Austen .
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
2
, 1980, pp. 285-7.
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Textual Production Willa Cather
In the 1920s WC was working for a maximum of three hours a day, banishing her work from her mind during the rest of day, but keeping herself fresh for it. She said her only...
Textual Production Sheenagh Pugh
This subject provides her with an unusual angle on intertextuality: SP investigates not only the proliferation of sequels to Jane Austen novels (by Joan Aiken , Emma Tennant , and many others) but also the...
Textual Production Joan Aiken
Next year came The Smile of the Stranger, a historicalromance whose English heroine experiences not only the French Revolution (since she has been living with her father in France) but other markers of...
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 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.
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Textual Production Kathleen E. Innes
Of about a dozen other books in the series, this work was the only one written by a woman about a woman writer. Royds situates Barrett Browning within a strong tradition of women writers including...
Textual Production Ling Shuhua
LS read widely and intended to translate fiction by other Anglophone authors. In 1932, she began translating Austen 's Pride and Prejudice, but halted the project when she learned that one of her better-known...
Textual Production Catherine Gore
In The Cabinet MinisterCG borrowed the foundations of a plot from Jane Austen once more, in the story of an impoverished sister and brother, Bessy and Frank Grenfell, brought up out of reluctant charity...
Textual Production Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Jane Austen in Manhattan was shot on location in New York for Merchant-Ivory Productions , with RPJ 's screenplay.
Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991.
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Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan, 1989.
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Textual Production Alice Meynell
She often used this column to address the works of literary women of the past. She judged Jane Austen inferior to Charlotte Brontë , accepting Brontë's opinion that Austen lacked what she, by implication, possessed:...
Textual Production Emma Parker
The title-page quoted Pope 's dictum that woman's a contradiction still.
Parker, Emma. Elfrida, Heiress of Belgrove. B. Crosby, 1811, 4 vols.
title-page
qtd. in
Feminist Companion Archive.
The publisher was Crosby (who at this date was holding Jane Austen 's Susan unpublished), and booksellers at Wrexham and Liverpool were mentioned...
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 Features Maria Edgeworth
The title is ironic: the protagonist is an irritating simpleton (prefiguring Austen 's Mrs Bennet), whose very funny dialogue has its roots in ME 's Essay on . . . Self-Justification.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
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