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Jane Austen
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Standard Name: Austen, Jane
Birth Name: Jane Austen
Pseudonym: A Lady
Styled: Mrs Ashton Dennis
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'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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Kennedy | Kennedy once again found her inspiration for this novel in the model of Jane Austen
. For Troy Chimneys, she extracted parts of the letters which Austen wrote to her sister, Cassandra
. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 187 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Grace Elliott | One or two Jane Austen
readers (recently Kathryn L. Shanks Libin
) have speculated that Austen may have been perpetrating a joke by attaching the scandal of GE
's married name and birth name (Dalrymple... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
opens her story with Jane Fairfax as a little orphan growing up in the family of Colonel and Mrs Campbell, whose naughty daughter Euphrasia is a likable foil to her throughout. She ends it... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Lively | Some stories are neatly turned but may seem a little perfunctory, like Abroad, about entitled young people, or Mrs Bennet after Austen
's character, about the continuing pressure for girls to marry or for... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | Here the first-person male narrator, a tiny dwarf-like man named Phineas Gilbert Nanson, on impulse abandons his work towards a PhD in English (Byatt skewers a gallery of predictably eccentric and pretentious academics), rejecting poststructural... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Yonge | If, as June Sturrock
writes, The Clever Woman of the Family is CY
's Emma, then Rachel's aspirations (which are civic-minded where those of Austen
's Emma are individual and self-serving) are far more sweepingly put down. Sturrock, June. "Heaven and Home": Charlotte M. Yonge’s Domestic Fiction and the Debate over Women. University of Victoria, 1995. 61 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Drabble | Imagery of postpartum fluidity, particularly lactation, characterizes the lovers' growing passion and the descriptions of female sexual desire and orgasm. The narrative alternates between a schizoid third-person dialogue Drabble, Margaret. The Waterfall. Penguin, 1971. 130 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Brookner | Again the protagonist, Kitty Maule, has a mixed national heritage: French/Russian and English. Again she is emotionally impoverished though academically successful; again she falls in love with a charismatic and unattainable man, Maurice Bishop. His... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Ham | The story opens with the young Englishwoman Rhoda Ford (the unbeautiful one of two sisters) and her family in the west of Ireland, where her father has an entrepreneurial scheme. They try to come... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | E. B. C. Jones | The book positions itself in relation to cultural, social and emotional markers that are not those of a majority in later times. Helen and Felicia read Northanger Abbey aloud, and Helen admits it to be... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | G. B. Stern | GBS
opens the second Austen book with an amusing account of an interview with a seventeen-and-a-half-year-old niece who relates how she has fallen seriously in love with a dashing army officer who is her ideal... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Jane Howard | Before beginning this novel she asked the advice of her stepson Martin Amis
to help her choose between this and a present-day version of Austen
's Sense and Sensibility. He opted unhesitatingly for the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Mozley | These attractive essays in belles lettres employ a relaxed, personal speaking voice (which does not, however, reveal its gender), which puts forward literary opinions with casual confidence. Many essays (like Samuel Johnson
's before them)... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Patricia Beer | This collection shows a deliberate inclination towards subjects whose strangeness startles the reader with an unexpected perspective. The title of the book is a phrase applied to the audience in Concert at Long Melford Church... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | P. D. James | PDJ
followed the English tradition of detective-story writing that has continued from the 1920s and 1930s, a genre in which many women have held dominant positions. She spoke of her adolescent reading as influenced in... |
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