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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.
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| Textual Features | Mary Shelley | MS
discussed with her correspondents emotions, ideas, politics, and books. In 1839 she voiced admiration for Jane Austen
's humour, vividness and correctness, but added that Harriet Martineau
had higher philosophical views. qtd. in Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, 1999, pp. 413-24. 424n29 |
| Textual Features | Annie Keary | All these lives and more are woven together. Mrs Edgecombe has been independently managing a large estate, and she and Walter cannot agree: Clemency could not help noticing the quiet masculine assumption of being necessarily... |
| Textual Features | Catherine Hubback | The younger sister is Emma Watson, who has been educated away from home, and who on returning to her impoverished family finds herself out of sympathy with her elder sisters' quest to attract husbands. As... |
| Textual Features | George Paston | In the Dictionary of Literary BiographyRebecca Brittenham
likens this novel's play on gothic convention to Jane Austen
's Northanger Abbey. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 |
| Textual Features | Maria Edgeworth | The title is ironic: the protagonist is an irritating simpleton (prefiguring Austen
's Mrs Bennet), whose very funny dialogue has its roots in ME
's Essay on . . . Self-Justification. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972. 320-2 |
| Textual Features | Catherine Gore | The title of this novel, published in 1836, echoes and responds to Anna Brownell Jameson
's Diary of an Ennuyée, 1826. The hero, Byronic Lord Eustace Hartston, keeps the heroine, Lady Harriet Delaval, some... |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Mary Ann Kelty | The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen
, though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau
on the topic of the sensitive... |
| Textual Features | Anne Stevenson | In the title-poem, each of five stanzas ends with a version of the first closing lines: we thought we were living now, / but we were living then. Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press, 1987. 128 |
| Textual Features | Mary Ann Kelty | At the end of the first volume Mortimer twice proposes to Eliza: once face to face and unpremeditatedly, then by letter. She does not accept him. By the end of the next volume he is... |
| Textual Features | Anne Stevenson | Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS
later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony. Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998. 126 |
| Textual Features | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | The feelings of this Emma are all in extremes. During her early passion she quotes Frances Greville
on the pains of sensibility. Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of. Emma. T. Hookham, 1773, 3 vols. 1: 66 |
| Textual Features | Mary Lavin | The novel is a treatment of Irishmiddle-class values.The domestic setting, opening strategy, and structure of the novel appear to be influenced by the work of Jane Austen
, on whom ML
had written her MA thesis. Kelly, Angeline Agnes. Mary Lavin, Quiet Rebel. Wolfhound Press, 1980, http://PS 3523 A946 Z7 K29 1980 HSS. 187 Peterson, Richard F. Mary Lavin. Twayne, 1978. 46-50 Krawschak, Ruth, and Regina Mahlke. Mary Lavin: A Checklist. R. Krawschak, 1979. 29 |
| Textual Features | Margaret Oliphant | Elisabeth Jay points out that the title might suggest a bildungsroman with a female protagonist, like Emma by Austen
, whose fine vein of feminine cynicism qtd. in Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995. 60 Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995. 66 |
| Textual Features | Kathleen E. Innes | Sources from which excerpts are taken include Jane Austen
's letters, William Cobbett
's Rural Rides, painter Anna Lea Merritt
's book A Hamlet in Old Hampshire, Hampshire Days by William Henry Hudson |
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