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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | J. K. Rowling | Formative early reading included Richard Scarry
and Kenneth Grahame
's The Wind in the Willows. Joanne Rowling did not care for Enid Blyton
as a young child but acquired a taste for her later... |
| Education | Flora Macdonald Mayor | Although FMM
's father was, for the most part, more concerned with her fragile health than her academic development, the twin sisters received some home-schooling from their mother to quite a high level, since she... |
| Education | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
was taught until she was about eighteen by her schoolmistress aunt Arabella
. In 1792 she was enrolled as a boarder at the Abbey School
in Reading, where Jane Austen
had spent a... |
| Education | Julia O'Faolain | JOF
's mother used to tell her suspense-driven fairy-tales, most of which were later published. O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber, 2014. 6 O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber, 2014. 2-3 |
| Education | Alice Meynell | In the summer of 1852 Elizabeth and Alice Thompson (later AM
) began their education under their father's instruction. Recording her daughters' lessons, Christiana Thompson writes, Dear little angels do their writing . .... |
| Education | Mary Lavin | ML
took her MA from University College, Dublin, with a thesis on Jane Austen
for which she received first class honours. Peterson, Richard F. Mary Lavin. Twayne, 1978. 20 |
| Education | Elizabeth Taylor | Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009. 12-13 |
| Education | Nell Dunn | ND
was educated at a convent school, which she left at the age of fourteen. Reading of some texts which were vital to her experience—Jane Austen
and Jean-Paul Sartre
—came after she had left... |
| Education | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
's family encouraged her in the regular pursuits of a young, middle-class Victorian woman. From her father she inherited an enthusiasm for poetry—she especially liked Shakespeare
, Coleridge
, and Whitman
—and she read... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Fletcher | She said she was wrapped up in her children. Though she never could command the patience that qualified me to be their teacher, I delighted in making them my happy and confidential companions. Fletcher, Eliza. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, of Edinburgh. Editor Richardson, Mary, Lady, Printed at the offices of C. Thurman for private circulation, 1874. 76 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Jane Howard | They had been living together for more than a year, and EJH
had already embarked on the difficult stepmother relationship with the three Amis children—especially the two boys, who were living with them, and were... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | P. D. James | PDJ
named Jane after her favourite author, Jane Austen
. She was reading Austen in a London bomb shelter not long before her daughter was born, and bombs fell incessantly around Queen Charlotte's Hospital
after... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Beatrix Potter | The day after receiving this letter, BP
re-read the end part of Jane Austen
's Persuasion. I thought my story had come right with patience & waiting like Anne Eliott [sic]'s did. qtd. in Grinstein, Alexander. The Remarkable Beatrix Potter. International Universities Press, 1995. 116 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | Mary Ann Evans (later GE
) accepted a proposal of marriage from a young artist, still unidentified, only to withdraw it when she apparently realised that her eager imagination had attributed to him attractions that... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Cassandra Lady Hawke | Jane Austen
was therefore CLH
's second cousin. |
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,
Saturday Review. Chawton.
28.739 (25 December 1869): 832-3
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.
There seems to be no agreement as to the spelling of her...
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,
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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
.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(18 November 1958): 12
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.
“1996 British Academy of Film and Television Awards”. Infoplease.
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 novel Bridget Jones's Diary (originally a newspaper column begun the previous year) was published as a book.
Shulman, Nicola. “Some Consolations of the Single State”. Times Literary Supplement, 1 Nov. 1996, p. 26.
26
: Oneword Radio, with offices in London, was...
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By Summer 2000
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.
Kent, Paul. “Oneword”. The Author, Vol.
cxii
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2001, pp. 30-1. 30
Oneword Radio. http://www.oneword.co.uk/.
Mslexia. Mslexia Publications.
14 (2002): 6
Teller, Neville. “To the Editor”. The Author, Vol.
121
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2010, p. 36. 36
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
.
Reynolds, Nigel. Last chapter as oldest publisher is bought out,, 11 May 2002. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/05/11/nmurr11.xml.
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.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
July 2003: Chawton House in the village of Chawton in...
Women writers item
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.
“House and Estate. History”. Chawton House Library.
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...
Texts
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