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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Textual Production Mary Stockdale
MS (as Miss Stockdale) issued through her father 's firmThe Family Book; or, Children's Journal, translated from the French of Arnaud Berquin , Interspers'd with Poetical Pieces written by the Translator...
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
MW has specialized in adapting and abridging novels for radio. Between 1980 and 2004 she adapted a wide array of fiction by women writers, including works by Jane Austen , Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
Textual Production Lady Margaret Sackville
LMS 's earliest works, which emerged from a romantic sense of beauty, defined her for decades of readers. In the first phase of her writing career, from 1900 to about 1915, she sought the delicate...
Textual Production Angela Thirkell
She also provided introductions for editions of Jane Austen 's Persuasion, 1946, William Makepeace Thackeray 's The Newcomes, 1954, and Anthony Trollope 's Barchester Towers, 1958.
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
Textual Production Barbara Hofland
The learnedness of allusion and the Austen -like style of satiric storytelling are both unlike BH 's usual manner. It was not her usual practice, either, to publish anonymously, without mention of other works.
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
QDL was arranging her lectures and essays on Jane Austen into book form. Despite interest from publishers and although QDL continued to write regularly on Austen, the monograph was never completed.
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995.
263, 339-40
Textual Production P. D. James
PDJ published a historical detective novel she said she wrote for fun and in order to combine two great enthusiasms (detection and Jane Austen ): Death Comes to Pemberley, a sequel to Pride and Prejudice.
qtd. in
Crown, Sarah. “A life in writing: PD James”. Guardian.co.uk, 4 Nov. 2011.
Textual Production Eglinton Wallace
It appeared in two different editions put out this year through the different publishers T. Hookham , and Debrett . The Debrett edition lists the price, one shilling and sixpence, on the title-page.
“Eighteenth Century Collections Online”. Gale Databases.
Goethe's novel...
Textual Production Margaret Kennedy
Kennedy took the material for this biography from a series of lectures on Jane Austen she had given at the Liverpool Branch of the British Federation of University Women and the English Association of Bath...
Textual Production Q. D. Leavis
QDL delivered the Jane Austen Bicentenary Lecture at the University of Newcastle . It was published posthumously as an essay.
Kinch, M. B. et al. F.R. Leavis and Q.D. Leavis: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland, 1989.
126-7
Textual Production P. D. James
PDJ gave the annual lecture to the Jane Austen Society at Chawton House in Hampshire (where Austen was a regular visitor); it was entitled Emma Considered as a Detective Story.
James, P. D. Time to Be in Earnest. Faber and Faber, 1999.
224, 250
Textual Production Monica Dickens
Her other introductions to literary works include one to a paperback edition of Austen 's Mansfield Park in 1972.
Textual Production Charlotte Brontë
CB 's comments on Jane Austen , whom she first read at this time, reflect her own literary priorities: She does her business of delineating the surface of the lives of genteel English people curiously...
Textual Production Georgiana Fullerton
GF enjoyed a high literary and personal reputation during and immediately after her life. One article, published soon after her death in The Catholic World, compared her favourably with Jane Austen , and claimed...

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