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.
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Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The series has a general introduction, On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing, and a Preface, Biographical and Critical for each novelist, which in its echo of the full and original title of Johnson's... |
Residence | Mary Anne Barker | MAB
and her husband, Frederick Broome
, called their cottage at the sheep station, from their own name, Broomielaw. It stood in the Malvern Hills on the banks of the Selwyn River, attached... |
Textual Production | Patricia Beer | PB
's Reader, I Married Him: A Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen
, Charlotte Brontë
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and George Eliot was a harbinger of serious critical interest in the women's literary tradition. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research. 25 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Patricia Beer | 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... |
Textual Features | Patricia Beer | PB
here considers a series of canonical authors, Austen
, Eliot
, Charlotte Brontë
, and Elizabeth Gaskell
, and the way that the Woman Question was handled in fiction. Critic John Mullan
notes her... |
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 Bedell, R. Meredith. Stella Benson. Twayne. 11 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Bonhote | A third-person narrative relates how Ellen, gentle as the dove, harmless as the lamb, and modest, without being reserved, Bonhote, Elizabeth. Ellen Woodley. William Lane. 1: 7 |
Textual Features | Dorothy Boulger | The plot follows in the tradition of Austen
's Pride and Prejudice: chance causes the heroine and future hero to dislike one another on sight, after which she has to learn to overcome her... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Bowen | She writes admiringly of Jane Austen
, but far less so of George Eliot
, whom she regards as over-intellectual. Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. 81-2 |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Henry James
's review in 1865 considered Braddon's success alongside that of Collins
, pronouncing her the founder of the sensation novel (defined as devising domestic mysteries adapted to the wants of a sternly prosaic... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Brontë | CB
's comments on Jane Austen
, whom she first read at this time, reflect her own literary priorities: She does her business of delineating the surface of the lives of genteel English people curiously... |
Reception | Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre has been filmed repeatedly for both television and the cinema, as well as being made the subject of musicals, plays, and a ballet performed by the London Children's Ballet
in 1997 and 2008... |
Literary responses | Anne Brontë | Like the first, this second reviewer (probably H. F. Chorley
) found Agnes Grey both less objectionable and less powerful than Wuthering Heights. Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 217-9 |
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 | 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:... |
Timeline
By Christmas 1869: Francis Galton, mathematician, scientist,...
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By Christmas 1869
Francis Galton
, mathematician, scientist, and eugenicist, published Hereditary Genius: An Enquiry into its Laws and Consequences,
1872: US writer Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncy,...
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1872
US writer Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncy, or Chauncey, Woolsey) published her highly popular and influential story for girls entitled What Katy Did.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
February 1906: Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's...
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February 1906
Publisher J. M. Dent
launched Everyman's Library, aiming to reprint
1,000 classic titles: the first year's 155 volumes included Æschylus
, Shakespeare
, Jane Austen
practically complete, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell.
169
1924: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth...
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1924
Leonard
and Virginia Woolf
at the Hogarth Press
published The Rector's Daughter, a novel by F. M. (or Flora Macdonald) Mayor
.
1937: Beatrice Kean Seymour wrote and published...
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1937
Beatrice Kean Seymour
wrote and published a biography entitiled Jane Austen
, Study for a Portrait.
22 July 1949: The house in the village of Chawton in Hampshire...
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22 July 1949
The house in the village of Chawton in Hampshire where Jane Austen
lived with her mother and sister from 1809 until her death was opened to the public, having been bought for three thousand pounds...
17 November 1958: The sale began at Sotheby's of the collection...
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17 November 1958
The sale began at Sotheby's
of the collection of first editions built up by the bibliographer Michael Sadleir
, who had recently died.
23 April 1996: The annual BAFTA (British Academy of Film...
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23 April 1996
The annual BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television
) Awards were presented at the LondonPalladium
in celebration of one hundred years of British film-making.
By late 1996: Helen Fielding hit the best-selling jackpot...
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By late 1996
Helen Fielding
hit the best-selling jackpot when her novelBridget Jones's Diary (originally a newspaper column begun the previous year) was published as a book.
: Oneword Radio, with offices in London, was...
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By Summer2000
Oneword Radio
, with offices in London, was set up to broadcast to readers: the bulk of its programming came from audiobooks read serially, sometimes though not always abridged.
By 11 May 2002: John Murray, publishers of Austen and Byron...
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By 11 May 2002
John Murray
, publishers of Austen
and Byron
among many others, and one of the few independent publishers remaining after rapid change in the industry, sold out to bookselling chain W. H. Smith
.
15 April 2003: Iranian academic Azar Nafisi published Reading...
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15 April 2003
Iranian academic Azar Nafisi
published Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, a remarkable work of social and political commentary intertwined with and expressed through literary criticism.
July 2003: Chawton House in the village of Chawton in...
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July 2003
Chawton House in the village of Chawton in Hampshire, once owned by Jane Austen
's brother Edward Austen Knight
, opened its doors as Chawton House Library
, a research centre in women's writing.
16 April 2007: Novelist Yann Martel began a project of sending...
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16 April 2007
Novelist Yann Martel
began a project of sending a book every two weeks to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
together with an admonitory letter; on a website he recorded the books sent and gave the...
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