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.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Hutton | CH
was reading Jane Austen
: at this stage she saw Austen's novels as trifles, but agreeable ones. Hutton, Catherine. Reminiscences of a Gentlewoman of the Last Century. Editor Beale, Catherine Hutton, Cornish Brothers. 175 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | A. S. Byatt | The writers considered (each for a single novel) are Jane Austen
, Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot
, Willa Cather
(for nine of whose works ASB
also wrote Virago
introductions), British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Penelope Fitzgerald | It includes Fitzgerald's comments on works by Jane Austen
, George Eliot
, Margaret Oliphant
, Barbara Pym
, Carol Shields
, and Amy Tan
, as well as on a number of recent literary... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Katharine Elwood | Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, Griselda Murray
, Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford
, Hester Lynch Piozzi |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria Callcott | After her first return from Italy and again later in her life, Maria Graham (later MC
) did book reviews for the publisher John Murray
. She expressed her admiration for contemporary literature: Coleridge
,... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Margaret Sackville | Austen
, she says, was the first really modern novelist . . . more modern in a sense than Dickens
or Thackeray
. Austen, Jane. “Introduction”. Jane Austen, edited by Lady Margaret Sackville, Herbert & Daniel, p. ix - xvi. xi |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | She omits reviews from this collection, but provides readers with an opportunity to consider literary topics. The Translation of Poetry argues that because [i]n poetry the form of the thought is part of the thought... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Kennedy | Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia Kavanagh | In this second work of women's literary history, JK
once again limits herself to the novel. Her canon comprises ten authors, from Aphra Behn
to Sydney Morgan
by way of Sarah Fielding
, Frances Burney |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Brigid Brophy | Some items are reprinted from Don't Never Forget, including a piece on Jane Austen
, fiercely condemnatory of her cult following (which BB
finds demeaning and condescending), which concludes with unreserved praise: I think... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Fay Weldon | Fiction-writer Aunt Fay writes letters to her eighteen-year-old niece, Alice, a student of literature at college, in defence of Austen
's novels, which Alice finds boring and irrelevant. The letters give precise descriptions of social... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Hubback | On the topic of Jane Austen
's first accepting, then rejecting, the proposal of Harris Bigg-Wither
, CH
wrote that the acceptance must have been given in a momentary fit of self-delusion, and that Jane... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susan Ferrier | SF
's letters deal mainly with day-to-day occurrences, but her literary opinons are always worth having. She comments on several works by Lady Charlotte Campbell (later Bury)
. Reading Austen
's Emma in 1816 (the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | G. B. Stern | She interprets the idea broadly, writing, for instance, of her love of Jane Austen
and of her experience in Hollywood. The volume establishes her shameless habit of repeating herself from one book of reminiscence... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vernon Lee | In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen
, Maria Edgeworth
,... |
Timeline
By Christmas 1869: Francis Galton, mathematician, scientist,...
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By Christmas 1869
Francis Galton
, mathematician, scientist, and eugenicist, published Hereditary Genius: An Enquiry into its Laws and Consequences,
1872: US writer Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncy,...
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1872
US writer Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncy, or Chauncey, Woolsey) published her highly popular and influential story for girls entitled What Katy Did.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
February 1906: Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's...
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February 1906
Publisher J. M. Dent
launched Everyman's Library, aiming to reprint
1,000 classic titles: the first year's 155 volumes included Æschylus
, Shakespeare
, Jane Austen
practically complete, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell.
169
1924: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth...
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1924
Leonard
and Virginia Woolf
at the Hogarth Press
published The Rector's Daughter, a novel by F. M. (or Flora Macdonald) Mayor
.
1937: Beatrice Kean Seymour wrote and published...
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1937
Beatrice Kean Seymour
wrote and published a biography entitiled Jane Austen
, Study for a Portrait.
22 July 1949: The house in the village of Chawton in Hampshire...
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22 July 1949
The house in the village of Chawton in Hampshire where Jane Austen
lived with her mother and sister from 1809 until her death was opened to the public, having been bought for three thousand pounds...
17 November 1958: The sale began at Sotheby's of the collection...
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17 November 1958
The sale began at Sotheby's
of the collection of first editions built up by the bibliographer Michael Sadleir
, who had recently died.
23 April 1996: The annual BAFTA (British Academy of Film...
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23 April 1996
The annual BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television
) Awards were presented at the LondonPalladium
in celebration of one hundred years of British film-making.
By late 1996: Helen Fielding hit the best-selling jackpot...
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By late 1996
Helen Fielding
hit the best-selling jackpot when her novelBridget Jones's Diary (originally a newspaper column begun the previous year) was published as a book.
: Oneword Radio, with offices in London, was...
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By Summer2000
Oneword Radio
, with offices in London, was set up to broadcast to readers: the bulk of its programming came from audiobooks read serially, sometimes though not always abridged.
By 11 May 2002: John Murray, publishers of Austen and Byron...
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By 11 May 2002
John Murray
, publishers of Austen
and Byron
among many others, and one of the few independent publishers remaining after rapid change in the industry, sold out to bookselling chain W. H. Smith
.
15 April 2003: Iranian academic Azar Nafisi published Reading...
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15 April 2003
Iranian academic Azar Nafisi
published Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, a remarkable work of social and political commentary intertwined with and expressed through literary criticism.
July 2003: Chawton House in the village of Chawton in...
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July 2003
Chawton House in the village of Chawton in Hampshire, once owned by Jane Austen
's brother Edward Austen Knight
, opened its doors as Chawton House Library
, a research centre in women's writing.
16 April 2007: Novelist Yann Martel began a project of sending...
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16 April 2007
Novelist Yann Martel
began a project of sending a book every two weeks to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
together with an admonitory letter; on a website he recorded the books sent and gave the...
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