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
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Augusta Ward
The heroine is described as deriving from a long line of English gentry, Whig supporters of the Empire: a tedious race perhaps and pig-headed, tyrannical too here and there, but on the whole honourable English...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Samuel Richardson
Innumerable women novelists later conducted a dialogue (some admiring, some rebutting or revising) with SR . Few could ignore his influence completely. Frances Brooke wrote his biography; Anna Letitia Barbauld edited his letters, and Jane Austen
Intertextuality and Influence Stella Gibbons
The plot opens when the young, urban, highly civilised, bossy London heroine, Flora Poste, decides (when her parents die leaving her an unexpectedly small income) to live off her exaggeratedly rustic Sussex relations. (Flora admires...
Intertextuality and Influence Ivy Compton-Burnett
This was a new influence added to those of the Victorian novelists (especially the women), Shakespeare , and Jane Austen , whom she admired extravagantly (Even her dull scraps are music to me)...
Intertextuality and Influence Antonia Fraser
Fraser quotes here from Eliot 's tribute in Middlemarch to the silent influence of those who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
qtd. in
Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England. Methuen, 1985.
xiii
She opens the book proper with a submerged...
Intertextuality and Influence Beatrix Potter
BP was not content with her success as a children's writer, but hankered to establish herself as an author for adults. Her references in her private writings to Burney (a propos of her first appearance...
Intertextuality and Influence P. D. James
As the work opens, Cordelia, slight of body, determined of will, savvy of mind
Gidez, Richard. P. D. James. Twayne, 1986.
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(who is to reappear later in another book, The Skull Beneath the Skin), is running a seedy detective agency...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Harriet Burney
Lorna J. Clark, editor of SHB 's letters, notes the abundant portrayal in her novels of dysfunctional families.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
lviii-lix
This Burney was a discerning reader of recent and contemporary fiction, admiring Maria Edgeworth and James Fenimore Cooper
Intertextuality and Influence Stella Gibbons
The novel is richly intertextual. Jane Austen is a source of inspiration: Flora's sole occupational goal for the next thirty years is to collect material for a novel as good as Persuasion, but with...
Intertextuality and Influence Katherine Mansfield
She opens her review by evoking the experimental, critically controversial current state of the novel, before presenting the surprising picture of Night and Day sailing into port serene and resolute.
qtd. in
Majumdar, Robin, and Allen McLaurin, editors. Virginia Woolf: The Critical Heritage. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975.
79
The image of a...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Russell Mitford
As early as 1824 MRM was asking the advice of friends as to whether they thought she could be a novelist.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 29
She added one of her frequent disclaimers: I write merely for remuneration...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriett Mozley
Her letters, on the evidence of those included in Dorothea Mozley 's Newman Family Letters (published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1962), are highly intelligent and entertaining. As a girl she rattles...
Intertextuality and Influence P. D. James
Commander Adam Dalgliesh does his detecting this time in the claustrophobic confines of a theological college, in one of [James's] favourite places—the isolated, beautiful, but desolate Suffolk coast.
Ashby, Melanie. “P. D. James Talks to Melanie Ashby”. Mslexia, Vol.
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, 1 June–30 Nov. 2002, pp. 39-40.
39
Despite the old-fashioned setting, the plot...
Intertextuality and Influence Stella Gibbons
Her contributions include Jane in Space, a science fiction story written in the style of Jane Austen .
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998.
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