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 Sheenagh Pugh
This subject provides her with an unusual angle on intertextuality: SP investigates not only the proliferation of sequels to Jane Austen novels (by Joan Aiken , Emma Tennant , and many others) but also the...
Textual Production Alice Meynell
She often used this column to address the works of literary women of the past. She judged Jane Austen inferior to Charlotte Brontë , accepting Brontë's opinion that Austen lacked what she, by implication, possessed:...
Textual Production Joan Aiken
Next year came The Smile of the Stranger, a historical romance whose English heroine experiences not only the French Revolution (since she has been living with her father in France) but other markers...
Textual Production Michèle Roberts
In November 2011 MR edited Wooing Mr Wickham, a collection of stories inspired by Jane Austen or by Chawton House.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Roberts also selected the stories for this volume from those submitted to the...
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 Ling Shuhua
LS read widely and intended to translate fiction by other Anglophone authors. In 1932, she began translating Austen 's Pride and Prejudice, but halted the project when she learned that one of her better-known...
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 Rebecca West
RW produced several introductions to novels by other writers, including Jonathan Cape 's editions of Kathleen Coyle 's Liv (1929), Jane Austen 's Northanger Abbey (1932), and Sarah Orne Jewett 's The Only Rose and Other Tales (1937).
West, Rebecca. “Bibliography”. Rebecca West: A Celebration, edited by Samuel Hynes, Viking Press, pp. 761-6.
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Textual Production Noel Streatfeild
In 1961 NS had the honour of appearing in Bodley Head 's series of monographs on children's writers, where she joined such household names as Mary Louisa Molesworth , Juliana Horatia Ewing , Lewis Carroll
Textual Production Naomi Alderman
In another article of similar date (early 2017), Alderman praises an early love, the webcomic, formerly the comic strip. Her favourites include as Kate Beaton 's webcomic Hark a Vagrant, which often, as in...
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 Marghanita Laski
ML went on to write several literary biographies: Jane Austen and Her World (1969), and George Eliot and Her World (1973), as well as her late biography of Kipling The work on Austen includes 137...
Textual Production Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW published a crisp
Shields, Carol. Jane Austen. Viking.
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little book of criticism titled Jane Austen , 1775-1817 for the British Book News series Writers and Their Work.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research.
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Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus.
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Textual Production Penelope Fitzgerald
PF 's publications in the scholarly field include an edition of The Novel on Blue Paper, an unfinished, unpublished work by William Morris , 1982, and the introduction to a new issue of Oxford University Press
Textual Features Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
In The Wayward (Weird) Sister the same character is writing a journal which owes its origin to Samuel Richardson , that is to Miss Byron, the indefatigable Miss Byron, and Clementina. Oh, but I shall...

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