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.
Photograph of a colourized print of Jane Austen, from a drawing by a Mr Andrews commissioned by Austen's nephew James Edward Austen Leigh as frontispiece to his "Memoir of Jane Austen", 1870 (fifty years after she died). She is shown seated, with a book on her lap, wearing a blue dress and light brown bonnet.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Maria Jane Jewsbury
Henry Austen , the source of many of MJJ 's opinions about his sister , recycled parts of this piece for Bentley 's new edition of Austen 's novels in 1833. (He omitted MJJ 's...
Publishing George Eliot
In submitting this anonymous manuscript to Blackwood , Lewes invoked the names of Oliver Goldsmith (author of The Vicar of Wakefield) and of Jane Austen . The firm of Blackwood turned out to be...
Publishing E. H. Young
This was the first novel she wrote after moving from Bristol to London. It went on to a further change of title in the United States, where it appeared in 1927 as The...
Publishing Margaret Drabble
On Jane Austen 's birthday, MD 's The Dower House at Kellynch: A Somerset Romance appeared in the journal Persuasions.
Drabble, Margaret. “The Dower House at Kellynch: A Somerset Romance”. Persuasions, Vol.
15
, pp. 75-88.
75-88
Publishing Flora Thompson
The Ladies Companion printed most of a winning competition entry by FT (who was not yet an author), an essay required to capture in 300 words her understanding of Jane Austen 's success.
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale.
81 and n3
Publishing Ethel Wilson
The book was produced in England but copies shipped to Canada bore a Canadian imprint.
Stouck, David. Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography. University of Toronto Press.
110
Publication was delayed for some time. Upon first receiving the manuscript in early 1945, EW 's editors at Macmillan
Publishing Cassandra Cooke
CC must have submitted the manuscript of her novel to the publisher Cawthorn well before October 1798, when she confided to her young cousin Jane Austen her annoyance over Cawthorn 's delays. At this date...
Publishing Aldous Huxley
Later that year he was hired again to adapt Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice for the big screen—though when England and Germany went to war he briefly tried to renege on the contract, feeling...
Publishing Eleanor Sleath
This book was written during a highly social period of ES 's life, and advertised in February 1799.
Czlapinski, Rebecca, and Eric C. Wheeler. Sleath Sleuth. New Eleanor Sleath Biography. http://sleathsleuth.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/new-eleanor-sleath-biography/.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 761
Most copies having been no doubt read to pieces, this is now a very rare...
Publishing Anne-Thérèse de Lambert
The collection was published as The Works of the Marchioness de Lambert in London in 1749 with Thomas Carte named as translator of the advice-letters but not of the rest. Further editions or re-issues appeared...
Reception Frances Burney
Burney's family were delighted. Her young half-sister Sarah Harriet (who was about to publish her own first novel) sent her a perfect rhapsody of praise.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press.
17-18
A long review in the Analytical Review, probably...
Reception Flora Macdonald Mayor
The novel established FMM 's reputation for precise use of prose,
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
60741 (4 October 1980): 8
received good reviews, and very nearly won the Polignac Prize.
Williams, Merryn. Six Women Novelists, Macmillan.
45
FMM was judged sensitive yet detached, firm and...
Reception E. H. Young
An international conference, The Life and Work of Emily Hilda Young, was held in Bristol, organised by Stella Dean and Austen scholar Maggie Lane .
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, pp. 303-31.
324
Reception Charlotte Smith
Jane Austen transcribed a poem, Kalendar of Flora, from Minor Morals, perhaps in summer 1808 for her sister Cassandra.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press.
204, 351
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...

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