qtd. in
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Austen | The fourth Austen brother, Henry Thomas
(to whom Jane was particularly close), became a banker, but after his bank failed in 1816 he was, like his eldest brother, ordained as a clergyman. He married as... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Austen | JA
's biographer Claire Tomalin
lists those women writers who were most important to her, for learning rather than for mockery, as Charlotte Lennox
, Frances Burney
, Charlotte Smith
, Maria Edgeworth
, and... |
Occupation | Catherine Hutton | As well as collecting illustrations of costume, CH
was an early collector of autographs. (She began both these collections at a young age, but presumably had to start again from scratch after her losses in... |
Publishing | Jane Austen | JA
wrote of this novel, I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her sucking child. qtd. in Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. 285 |
Publishing | Jane Austen | Austen claimed her work indirectly, publishing as the Author of Sense and Sensibility. She used similar formulas on later novels. Sutherland, Kathryn. “Jane Austen’s Dealings with John Murray and his Firm”. Review of English Studies, Vol. 52 , 31 Mar. 2012. 10 |
Publishing | Maria Jane Jewsbury | |
Textual Features | Maria Jane Jewsbury | MJJ
finds in Austen a woman who, exceptionally, achieved high literary distinction without sacrificing the manner of life peculiarly set apart for the female sex; qtd. in Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 1, 2000, pp. 105-18. 110 |
Travel | Jane Austen | JA
visited London, staying with her brother Henry
. Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11. 9 |
Wealth and Poverty | Jane Austen | JA
suffered financial loss (though less than other family members) when her brother Henry
's bank failed. Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11. 10 Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997. 26 |
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