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
Intertextuality and Influence Edna O'Brien
EOB has named many women writers as important to her: she includes among these Jane Austen , Emily Dickinson , Elizabeth Bowen , Anna Akhmatova , Anita Brookner , and Margaret Atwood , adding: Every...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Inchbald
The Critical covered EI 's version (which had a staggering run of forty-two performances) and Stephen Porter's in the same review.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 24 (1798): 431
It was Inchbald's translation round which Jane Austen built...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth B. Lester
Longman 's reader (our literary friend
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 449
) had suggested as title Isadora; or, The Force of First Love.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 449
This novel too was attributed to Mrs Ross, perhaps because of...
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Smith
CS 's biographer Loraine Fletcher gives a whole chapter to Austen 's response to her work.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
303-17
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Gore
Like its predecessor, this novel recalls Jane Austen , but this time the plot (at least the earlier part) is closer to that of Sense and Sensibility. Marcia, a sensible elder sister, makes a...
Intertextuality and Influence Lucy Walford
In Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, LW records her early love of literature. The books she read as a child, especially at the age of seven—including Charlotte Yonge 's The Little Duke, works...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Louisa Molesworth
In each of these stories a male character knows an attractive woman only by a single feature of her appearance. In Bronzie a schoolboy becomes obsessed with a young woman he observes from behind in...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Radcliffe
This novel marks AR 's first big success. It drew widespread critical acclaim.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
83
The Critical Review praised it and likened the author to Clara Reeve (while making an issue of the fact that, though...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Gardam
Most of these stories inhabit JG 's familiar territory among suburban women of a certain age, but other protagonists are very different: a dirty old tramp, a reluctant male homosexual, and, in the title story...
Intertextuality and Influence Margaret Atwood
The world before is a slightly exaggerated and unmercifully satirised version of today's reality: gated communities, vertiginous inequalities, frequently mutating viruses, sadistic pornography online, and commodification of everything. True to Atwood's principles, she finds the...
Intertextuality and Influence Ali Smith
Like most of AS 's work, this novel is playfully self-reflexive in its adherence to typical story structure. In a formulaic breakdown of essential narrative parts, The Accidental has a prescribed Beginning, Middle...
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 Grace Aguilar
The central character is the undowered girl Florence Leslie—so called because of her birth in Italy—whose high-minded principles have been fuelled by indiscriminate
Aguilar, Grace. Woman’s Friendship. D. Appleton and Company, 1891.
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reading in history, poetry, and romance at an early age...
Intertextuality and Influence Grace Elliott
One or two Jane Austen readers (recently Kathryn L. Shanks Libin ) have speculated that Austen may have been perpetrating a joke by attaching the scandal of GE 's married name and birth name (Dalrymple...

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