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 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 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...
Textual Production G. B. Stern
Sheila Kaye-Smith and GBS jointly published Talking of Jane Austen, an attempt at an informal record of their endless conversations about a novelist they both loved.
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958.
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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 Emma Tennant
ET published two more sequels: Emma in Love, Jane Austen 's Emma Continued, and Elinor and Marianne, A Sequel to Sense and Sensibility.
Tennant, Emma. Emma in Love. Fourth Estate, 1996.
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Textual Production Sarah Tytler
In a single volume, ST 's Jane Austen and Her Works offered a short biography and a plot summary of the major novels, interspersed with critical commentary.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Tytler, Sarah. Jane Austen and Her Works. Cassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880.
prelims
Textual Production Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS published a largely epistolary novel which is designed as a companion piece to Jane Austen 's Emma. Entitled Jane Fairfax: A New Novel, it is written in a pastiche of early-nineteenth-century style.
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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 Joan Aiken
JA published Mansfield Revisited, A Novel, a sequel to Austen 's Mansfield Park and a harbinger of escalation in fiction of this type.
“Joan Aiken”. Fantastic Fiction.
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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 Ali Smith
In addition to these collaborative works, AS has published an anthology of her own favourite texts, those she sees as essential to her development as a writer. Published twice under different titles—The Reader (2006)...
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 Emma Tennant
In the same year she published Tess, which is based on and continues the story of Hardy 's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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She followed these the next year with a return to Austen

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