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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | E. M. Hull | Patricia Raub
views The Sheik as the precursor of the mass-marketed romances initiated by Harlequin Romance novels in 1957. Raub, Patricia. “Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hulls The SheikWomens Studies, Vol. 21 , 1992, pp. 119-28. 123 |
| Literary responses | Harriette Wilson | Admiration of HW
as a writer united historian Eric Hobsbawm
and editor Karl Miller
. Miller judged the memoirs a well-written serious work, as much a work of social history, a study of class and... |
| Literary responses | Frances Jacson | The Critical Review did this novel proud, first listing it, then praising it warmly for its superior moral tendency. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 4th ser. 1 (1812): 668 Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 4th ser. 6 (1814): 688 |
| Literary responses | Eliza Lynn Linton | Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing this novel for the Athenæum, was none too complimentary. She thought the author had offered an ineffective sermon on this excellent moral: clever, as anything she writes is likely to... |
| Literary responses | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | RPJ
was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976, the Neil Gunn International Fellowship in earlier 1979, a MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1983, and a CBE in 1998. Sucher, Laurie. The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: The Politics of Passion. Macmillan, 1989. 242, 3 Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991. 25 Gates, Anita. “Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Screenwriter, Dies at 85”. The New York Times, 3 Apr. 2013. |
| Literary responses | Susan Ferrier | This novel too was a success, if not quite so resoundingly as Marriage (to whose reputation more than one reviewer referred). Cullinan, Mary. Susan Ferrier. Twayne, 1984. 68-9 |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Meanwhile the vogue for The Wild Irish Girl was immense: Dublin ladies were wearing scarlet cloaks and golden bodkins, as Glorvina and as Owenson did. Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988. 71-2 |
| Literary responses | Henrietta Sykes | Jane Austen
joked in a letter about taking this novel as fact. We are just going to set off for Northumberland to be shut up in Widdrington Tower, where there must be two or three... |
| Literary responses | Rachel Hunter | The Critical Review offered its warm commendation on the volume. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 3rd ser. 1 (1804): 118 |
| Literary responses | Frances Jacson | Maria Edgeworth
read this novel on its appearance (firmly preferring it to Jane Austen's Emma), and two years later mentioned it as the title defining FJ
's achievement. Percy, Joan. “An Unrecognized Novelist: Frances Jacson (1754-1842)”. British Library Journal, Vol. 23 , No. 1, 1997, pp. 81-97. 96n5 |
| Literary responses | Emily Eden | The Athenæum reported: A brighter book of travel we have not seen for many a day. It likened EE
's style to that of Lucie Duff Gordon
and her wit, satire, and suggestion to those... |
| Literary responses | Catherine Sinclair | The Athenæum reviewer somehow detected similarities between this book and the work of Jane Austen
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 964 (18 April 1846): 395 |
| Literary responses | Mary Brunton | Brunton's English publisher, Longman
, registered in the year of publication that the book was in great demand and very much admired on the whole, though some complain of the later part of the work... |
| Literary responses | Rachel Hunter | This novel was the second of RH
's to be affectionately mocked by Jane Austen
. Austen sent her niece the future Anna Lefroy
a letter purportedly for delivery to RH
herself, in the formal... |
| Literary responses | Louisa May Alcott | Following her death, G. K. Chesterton
in a laudatory (if sexist) review classed LMA
with Austen
as an early realist, and praised her apt depictions of human truths. Chesterton, G. K. “Louisa Alcott”. Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott, edited by Madeleine B. Stern, G. K. Hall, 1984, pp. 212-14. 213-14 |
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