According to JA
's sister Cassandra
the planning and writing of Mansfield Park, her longest novel, took Austen about twenty-nine months.
Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11.
9
Textual Production
Jane Austen
JA
's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously together, through the agency of her sister Cassandra
: the title-page said 1818.
Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
27
Travel
Jane Austen
JA
, Cassandra
, and their mother
moved to furnished lodgings at 25 Gay Street, Bath.
Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11.
7
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.