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 Sarah Harriet Burney
Lorna J. Clark, editor of SHB 's letters, notes the abundant portrayal in her novels of dysfunctional families.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. “Editor’s Introduction”. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, edited by Lorna J. Clark, Georgia University Press, 1997.
lviii-lix
This Burney was a discerning reader of recent and contemporary fiction, admiring Maria Edgeworth and James Fenimore Cooper
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Gore
The title-page quotes and very slightly alters four lines from Pope beginning What gay ideas crowd the vacant brain,
Gore, Catherine. Mothers and Daughters. Bentley, 1849.
title-page
but whereas Pope's imaginary Teresa Blount was daydreaming idly and innocently of the dukes and...
Intertextuality and Influence Ivy Compton-Burnett
This was a new influence added to those of the Victorian novelists (especially the women), Shakespeare , and Jane Austen , whom she admired extravagantly (Even her dull scraps are music to me)...
Intertextuality and Influence Antonia Fraser
Fraser quotes here from Eliot 's tribute in Middlemarch to the silent influence of those who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
qtd. in
Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England. Methuen, 1985.
xiii
She opens the book proper with a submerged...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Gore
The title-page quotes the passage in Swift 's Gulliver's Travels where the King of Brobdingnag hears from Gulliver about English politics and marvels that human grandeur can be mimicked by such contemptible insects.
qtd. in
Gore, Catherine. The Hamiltons; or, Official Life in 1830. R. Bentley, 1850.
title-page
The...
Intertextuality and Influence Molly Keane
This, like Good Behaviour, is a black comedy set in a crumbling Anglo-Irishbig house, Durraghglass. Unlike Good Behaviour it sets its protagonist family (of the same generation as Aroon St Charles) in...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
13
reading in history, poetry, and romance at an early age...

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