Henry Austen

Standard Name: Austen, Henry

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Jane Austen
The fourth Austen brother, Henry Thomas (to whom Jane was particularly close), became a banker, but after his bank failed in 1816 he was, like his eldest brother, ordained as a clergyman. He married as...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Austen
JA 's biographer Claire Tomalin lists those women writers who were most important to her, for learning rather than for mockery, as Charlotte Lennox , Frances Burney , Charlotte Smith , Maria Edgeworth , and...
Occupation Catherine Hutton
As well as collecting illustrations of costume, CH was an early collector of autographs. (She began both these collections at a young age, but presumably had to start again from scratch after her losses in...
Publishing Maria Jane Jewsbury
Henry Austen , the source of many of MJJ 's opinions about his sister , recycled parts of this piece for Bentley 's new edition of Austen 's novels in 1833. (He omitted MJJ 's...
Publishing Jane Austen
JA wrote of this novel, I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her sucking child.
qtd. in
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
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She published it as a Lady: the only one issued this way, since later...
Publishing Jane Austen
Austen claimed her work indirectly, publishing as the Author of Sense and Sensibility. She used similar formulas on later novels.
Sutherland, Kathryn. “Jane Austen’s Dealings with John Murray and his Firm”. Review of English Studies, Vol.
52
, 31 Mar. 2012.
10
She had decided this time to lessen the trouble taken by her brother...
Textual Features Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ finds in Austen a woman who, exceptionally, achieved high literary distinction without sacrificing the manner of life peculiarly set apart for the female sex;
qtd. in
Wilkes, Joanne. “’Only the broken music’? The Critical Writings of Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 105-18.
110
who had too much wit to lay herself open...
Travel Jane Austen
JA visited London, staying with her brother Henry .
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.
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Wealth and Poverty Jane Austen
JA suffered financial loss (though less than other family members) when her brother Henry 's bank failed.
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.
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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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