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 | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Whipple | Unfortunately as published it contains almost no dates. In the early pages DW
writes a deliberately commonplace style, but often records glimpses of people or overheard conversations for possible use in fiction. She relates the... |
Textual Features | Jane West | The Danbury ladies take an avid interest in the arrival at a nearby mansion of Mr Dudley and one of his two daughters, whose mother is dead. Again the contrasted heroines (this time sisters) follow... |
Literary responses | Jane West | This work had the unusual distinction of earning approving comments from both Austen
and Wollstonecraft
. The contrasted sisters are generally seen as an important source for Austen
's Sense and Sensibility, and the... |
Reception | Jane West | JW
was well-known as a productive writer who nevertheless put out a great deal of domestic labour. Jane Austen
, marvelling at her sister's time management skills, remarked: how good Mrs. West cd [sic] have... |
Textual Production | Rebecca West | RW
produced several introductions to novels by other writers, including Jonathan Cape
's editions of Kathleen Coyle
's Liv (1929), Jane Austen
's Northanger Abbey (1932), and Sarah Orne Jewett
's The Only Rose and Other Tales (1937). West, Rebecca. “Bibliography”. Rebecca West: A Celebration, edited by Samuel Hynes, Viking Press, pp. 761-6. 764-5 |
Textual Features | Eudora Welty | |
Anthologization | Eudora Welty | EW
's essay The Radiance of Jane Austen was reprinted in 2009 in |
Reception | Eudora Welty | Like Austen
's Mansfield Park, Delta Wedding has been contradictorily read, some seeing its patriarchal estate as embodying utopia and some as dystopia. Reviewer Claudia Roth Pierpont
argued in The New Yorker that Welty... |
Textual Production | 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 |
Textual Production | Fay Weldon | FW
published Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen, a book whose contents are what its title suggests. Faulks, Lana. Fay Weldon. Twayne. 71 |
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... |
Textual Production | Fay Weldon | In 2003 FW
contributed a foreword to a new edition of Austen
's juvenile Love and Freindship (which, unusually, corrects the title to Love and Friendship). Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Sarah Waters | SW
wrote her foreword to Dancing with Mr Darcy. Stories Inspired by Jane Austen
and Chawton House Library, selected in a competition which she had also judged, and published this year. Waters, Sarah. “Foreword”. Dancing with Mr Darcy, Honno, pp. 1-4. 4 |
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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