Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
In Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, LW
records her early love of literature. The books she read as a child, especially at the age of seven—including Charlotte Yonge
's The Little Duke, works...
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.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Charlotte Smith
The young Jane Austen
paid Emmeline the compliment of allusion in her comical History of England, 1791.Anna Seward
, on the other hand, condemned CS
for indelicacy because she had exposed her husband's...
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
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.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Cassandra Cooke
The Critical Review offered a plot-summary of Battleridge and said that the grasp of seventeenth-century manners was good, but the work is not very amusing; and, in point of composition, it is despicable.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Catherine Gore
Her topic here is the social complications that arise when a wife, unusually, has her own independent income.
Vargo, Lisa. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Lodore</span> and the ’Novel of Society’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 425-40.
435
CG
's preface calls this a Novel of the simplest kind, addressed by a woman to...
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.
56
(who is to reappear later in another book, The Skull Beneath the Skin), is running a seedy detective agency...
Intertextuality and Influence
Christine Brooke-Rose
This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen
of a great German contemporary of Austen:...
Intertextuality and Influence
U. A. Fanthorpe
With this volume, says UAF
, I entered the different world of S. Martin's, Lancaster, and of France; and I was just beginning to have things to say about the condition of women...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Louisa Molesworth
In each of these stories a male character knows an attractive woman only by a single feature of her appearance. In Bronzie a schoolboy becomes obsessed with a young woman he observes from behind in...
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.
Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England. Methuen.
xiii
She opens the book proper with a submerged...
Intertextuality and Influence
Catherine Gore
The title-page quotes and very slightly alters four lines from Pope
beginning What gay ideas crowd the vacant brain,
Gore, Catherine. Mothers and Daughters. Bentley.
title-page
but whereas Pope's imaginary Teresa Blount
was daydreaming idly and innocently of the dukes and...
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.
