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 Dodie Smith
The book is narrated in the first person by seventeen-year-old Cassandra, a budding writer. As she explains, I am writing this journal partly to practise my newly acquired speed-writing and partly to teach myself how...
Intertextuality and Influence Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The film shows the play being auctioned, and bought by an Off-Broadway group who produce it in Absurdist style. While they work at it, period motifs in the plot (notably the abduction of Harriet Byron)...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Sarah Hoey
Miriam finds local gossip that Florence is attempting to entrap her father ludicrous, and describes it as a comic parallel to Vanity Fair, with Florence not as Becky Sharp but as Amelia having to...
Intertextuality and Influence Margaret Kennedy
MK found the inspiration for this novel in Jane Austen 's satire of gothic melodrama, Northanger Abbey. The tragic melodrama of this novel's love stories, however, brings it closer to the actual gothic tradition...
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Smith
The young Jane Austen paid Emmeline the compliment of allusion in her comical History of England, 1791.Anna Seward , on the other hand, condemned CS for indelicacy because she had exposed her husband's...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Augusta Ward
The heroine is described as deriving from a long line of English gentry, Whig supporters of the Empire: a tedious race perhaps and pig-headed, tyrannical too here and there, but on the whole honourable English...
Intertextuality and Influence Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
Mary Wollstonecraft , though she saw many virtues in this book, was not happy that Adelaide was educated to be obedient, not independent-minded: that with all her accomplishments she was ready to marry any body...
Intertextuality and Influence Penelope Lively
As controversy has been Henry's domain, reading has been Charlotte's. For ever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. Reading has taught her how sex...
Intertextuality and Influence Samuel Richardson
Innumerable women novelists later conducted a dialogue (some admiring, some rebutting or revising) with SR . Few could ignore his influence completely. Frances Brooke wrote his biography; Anna Letitia Barbauld edited his letters, and Jane Austen
Intertextuality and Influence Viola Meynell
VM moves away from theological influence here, as her prose becomes dispassionate and satiric. This novel lacks plot interest; its strength lies in its emotional texture.In a manner that has been likened to Jane Austen
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 Margaret Kennedy
Kennedy once again found her inspiration for this novel in the model of Jane Austen . For Troy Chimneys, she extracted parts of the letters which Austen wrote to her sister, Cassandra .
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983.
187
Intertextuality and Influence Penelope Lively
Some stories are neatly turned but may seem a little perfunctory, like Abroad, about entitled young people, or Mrs Bennet after Austen 's character, about the continuing pressure for girls to marry or for...
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

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