Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
This collection shows a deliberate inclination towards subjects whose strangeness startles the reader with an unexpected perspective. The title of the book is a phrase applied to the audience in Concert at Long Melford Church...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Ann Kelty
MAK
published, anonymously, her first, part-epistolary, religious novel, The Favourite of Nature: A Tale, which reflects the influence of her admired Jane Austen
.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 521
Intertextuality and Influence
Edith Mary Moore
The title-page quotes from Shakespeare
(What's past is Prologue) and Cicero
(That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood).
Moore, Edith Mary. The Defeat of Woman. C.W. Daniel Co., 1935.
prelims
The chapters run from Women and the Struggle...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jane Taylor
Tomkins (whose words open the novel in very much the way that Sterne
's narrator opens A Sentimental Journey) is in search of a wife, but early rules out the heroine from consideration. She...
Intertextuality and Influence
Cassandra Cooke
The Critical Review offered a plot-summary of Battleridge and said that the grasp of seventeenth-century manners was good, but the work is not very amusing; and, in point of composition, it is despicable.
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 778
Intertextuality and Influence
Christine Brooke-Rose
This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen
of a great German contemporary of Austen:...
Intertextuality and Influence
U. A. Fanthorpe
With this volume, says UAF
, I entered the different world of S. Martin's, Lancaster, and of France; and I was just beginning to have things to say about the condition of women...
Intertextuality and Influence
Barbara Pym
The central characters here are Jane Cleveland, a kindly and somewhat fey Oxford
don, and Prudence Bates, Jane's former student and surrogate daughter. Jane's main preoccupation is matchmaking for Prudence: she likens herself not only...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Lavin
Another early work was Jane Austen
and the Construction of the Novel, Lavin's MA thesis.
Intertextuality and Influence
Margaret Oliphant
This novel is narrated in a consistently controlled sardonic tone.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
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Lucilla Marjoribanks keeps house for her father, and employs on Carlingford society the skills she has learned in studying political economy at school. She...
Intertextuality and Influence
Stella Benson
For a period of time after Goodbye, Stranger, SB
did very little writing but a great deal of reading, including the novels of Jane Austen
. She said she felt extremely middle-aged
Gore, Catherine. Cecil; or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb. R. Bentley, 1845.
title-page
As the Edinburgh Review noticed, Cecil's launching as a coxcomb takes place in 1809, the year that Byron began writing Childe Harold, and his final moral awakening...
Intertextuality and Influence
Frances Brooke
She thought it had been too long, with too little plot, and that the subscription method had not been to its benefit. Critic Juliet McMaster
believes that Jane Austen
had Emily Montague in mind in...
Intertextuality and Influence
Frances Eleanor Trollope
It begins by relaying the story of Augustus Cheffington, whose marriage below his rank to Susan Dobbs is blamed for his inability to secure himself the respect of proper society or a position in the...
Intertextuality and Influence
John Oliver Hobbes
JOH
's speeches and interviews regularly deal with literature. In an interview with William Archer
, she admits to admiring Arthur Wing Pinero
's characterisation of women, while noting how little individualised are some of...
