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 Catherine Gore
Like its predecessor, this novel recalls Jane Austen , but this time the plot (at least the earlier part) is closer to that of Sense and Sensibility. Marcia, a sensible elder sister, makes a...
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 Susan Ferrier
The Inheritance opens with what sounds like an allusion to Jane Austen : It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.
Cullinan, Mary. Susan Ferrier. Twayne.
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Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Smith
CS 's biographer Loraine Fletcher gives a whole chapter to Austen 's response to her work.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan.
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Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Inchbald
The Critical covered EI 's version (which had a staggering run of forty-two performances) and Stephen Porter's in the same review.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 24 (1798): 431
It was Inchbald's translation round which Jane Austen built...
Intertextuality and Influence Margaret Oliphant
This novel is narrated in a consistently controlled sardonic tone.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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Lucilla Marjoribanks keeps house for her father, and employs on Carlingford society the skills she has learned in studying political economy at school. She...
Intertextuality and Influence Rhoda Broughton
Critics have pointed to a range of influences and allusions in this novel. Kate Flint has suggested that the representation of the sorrowful-eyed aesthete Francis Chaloner was a satiric jab at Oscar Wilde , who...
Intertextuality and Influence Hannah More
Harriet Corp also responded, in 1817, with Coelebs Deceived, which opens with respectful critical dialogue about More's novel; but Corp's middle-aged protagonist finally decides to stay single. Mary Waldron suggests that Jane Austen 's...
Intertextuality and Influence Dodie Smith
The book is narrated in the first person by seventeen-year-old Cassandra, a budding writer. As she explains, I am writing this journal partly to practise my newly acquired speed-writing and partly to teach myself how...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Gardam
Most of these stories inhabit JG 's familiar territory among suburban women of a certain age, but other protagonists are very different: a dirty old tramp, a reluctant male homosexual, and, in the title story...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Strutt
Influence of Frances Burney 's Evelina is perceptible here, and influence of Jane Austen seems at least a possibility: a family estate is named Maple Grove, as in Emma, and the heroine's marriage to...
Intertextuality and Influence Stella Benson
For a period of time after Goodbye, Stranger, SB did very little writing but a great deal of reading, including the novels of Jane Austen . She said she felt extremely middle-aged
Bedell, R. Meredith. Stella Benson. Twayne.
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Intertextuality and Influence Emily Eden
EE 's preface explains that she first set this novel in what was then the present day: the pre-Reform-Bill, pre-railway era. She did not wish to update it in revising, so it is now set...
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 Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
These provided the pattern for Thomas Moore 's very fashionable Irish Melodies.
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
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Either Moore's or possibly Morgan's are provided by Frank Churchill for Jane Fairfax along with the famous piano in Austen 's Mansfield Park.

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