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.
LMS
edited a volume of selections from Jane Austen, for which she wrote an introduction.
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Rose Tremain
RT
published a novel entitled Music and Silence, which she dedicated to her daughter, Eleanor.
Scholar John Mullan
has related the title to others employing two abstract nouns, like Elizabeth Inchbald
's Nature and...
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Melesina Trench
Because a grand-daughter (Mary-Melusina, daughter of Richard Chenevix Trench) married a son of James Edward Austen-Leigh
(first biographer of his aunt Jane Austen
), MT
's papers are now housed with the Austen-Leigh papers at...
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Sheila Kaye-Smith
With her friend G. B. Stern
, SKS
published More Talk of Jane Austen, proposed by Kaye-Smith to follow their earlier Talking of Jane Austen, 1943.
British Book News. British Council.
(1951): 52
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
In the 1920s WC
was working for a maximum of three hours a day, banishing her work from her mind during the rest of day, but keeping herself fresh for it. She said her only...
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
216
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Joan Aiken
JA
published another novel conceived of as complementary to Austen
: The Youngest Miss Ward, a prequel to Mansfield Park.
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Eliza Parsons
EP
's second gothic novel, The Mysterious Warning, A German Tale (another favourite of Austen
's Isabella Thorpe), appeared, with a frontispiece and dedication to the new Princess of Wales.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 687-8
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Lady Margaret Sackville
LMS
's earliest works, which emerged from a romantic sense of beauty, defined her for decades of readers. In the first phase of her writing career, from 1900 to about 1915, she sought the delicate...
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Kathleen E. Innes
Of about a dozen other books in the series, this work was the only one written by a woman about a woman writer. Royds situates Barrett Browning within a strong tradition of women writers including...
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Joan Aiken
JA
published a pendant to yet another Austen
novel: Lady Catherine's Necklace, which foregrounds minor characters from Pride and Prejudice and adds a number of new ones.
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Catherine Gore
In The Cabinet MinisterCG
borrowed the foundations of a plot from Jane Austen
once more, in the story of an impoverished sister and brother, Bessy and Frank Grenfell, brought up out of reluctant charity...
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Olivia Manning
In 1971 OM
edited a volume of Romanian Short Stories for Oxford University Press
. She also wrote an introduction for a Pan
edition of Austen
's Northanger Abbey, published in 1979.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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Fay Weldon
FW
's five-part dramatisation of Jane Austen
's Pride and Prejudice was screened.
Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research.
14: 752
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Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ
contributed an introduction to a volume, the seventh in John Lehmann
's The Chiltern Library, published in 1947 and containing two titles by Elizabeth Gaskell
. In her introduction to Thackeray
's Vanity...
