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
Family and Intimate relationships Cassandra Cooke
CC was a first cousin of her namesake Cassandra Leigh Austen , and first cousin once removed, as well as godmother, of the latter's daughter Jane Austen . The older and younger novelist were not...
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Lady Pennington
Her father, John Moore , was an apothecary practising in the fashionable resort of Bath in Somerset, who seems to have become rich in his practice. His name and place of residence appears on...
Family and Intimate relationships Cassandra Cooke
Cassandra's cousin Jane Austen criticised the household management of Samuel Cooke (who was her godfather), judging him a disagreable, fidgetty master to his servants.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
In his professional capacity he worried about competing with the Methodists
Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Hubback
Once she became a writer herself, CH drew some capital from her relationship to her famous aunt, Jane Austen , who died the year before she was born. Tradition later said that as a little...
Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Kirkham Mathews
The pair had met that summer. At four years the younger, he was just twenty-one.
Mathews, Anne Jackson. Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian. R. Bentley, 1838–1839, 4 vols.
1: 198
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Charles Mathews
In the account of the marriage given by Mathews's second wife (who does not sound...
Family and Intimate relationships Blanche Warre Cornish
He later assumed his mother's birth-name, becoming Warre Cornish. He was older than his wife by seventeen years, and had fallen love with her when she was only sixteen.They had eight children together: in the...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Linskill
Mary Jane Linskill had two sisters and three brothers, besides, says Stamp, four other siblings who died very young. She was four years older than Elizabeth, the next to survive. Years later a baby named...
Family and Intimate relationships Carola Oman
Having worked before her marriage with the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants (founded by Octavia Hill ), Mary Oman worked in Oxford for innumerable charities including the Church Missionary Society .
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
112
She supported...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Rigby
In 1849, ER 's friend Sara Coleridge called her the most brilliant woman of the day . . . . She is thoroughly feminine, like that princess of novelists, Jane Austen .
Coleridge, Sara. Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge. Editor Coleridge, Edith, 4th Abridged, Henry S. King, 1875.
301-2
Friends, Associates Ivy Compton-Burnett
Liddell was to remain one of ICB 's close friends. She maintained a benevolent, almost aunt-like relationship with him, and although resident abroad he was an important source of support after Jourdain's death. He later...
Friends, Associates Harriett Mozley
HM enjoyed a visit in November 1838 to Fulwar William Fowle , rector of Allington in Wiltshire, whose family was closely connected with Jane Austen . Fowle was quite surprised and pleased
qtd. in
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
78
at the...
Friends, Associates G. B. Stern
One of GBS 's close friends was Sheila Kaye-Smith , with whom she collaborated in works about Jane Austen . Another was Noël Coward , who met her after sending her a fan letter, introduced...
Friends, Associates Cassandra Cooke
CC met Warren Hastings and his wife Marian at Adlestrop in January 1791, and remained on friendly terms: she sent a message congratulating him at the end of his marathon trial.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
132, 175
She and...
Friends, Associates Germaine de Staël
In Regency England GS met Coleridge , Southey , and Byron . Jane Austen , however, made a point of avoiding her.
Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg, 1985.
74, 76
Health Dora Carrington
Carrington attempted to give herself a miscarriage by riding a horse violently, and when this did not work she became depressed to a nearly suicidal degree.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989.
271-2
She had mused to Gerald Brenan in 1920...

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