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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Mary Ann Kelty
At the end of the first volume Mortimer twice proposes to Eliza: once face to face and unpremeditatedly, then by letter. She does not accept him. By the end of the next volume he is...
Textual Features A. S. Byatt
Her trenchant comments on the art of fiction include: If you don't see art as being profoundly related to the pleasure principle there's something wrong with you.
Friel, James, and Jenny Newman. “A. S. Byatt”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction: An Introduction through Interviews, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Hodder Headline, 2004, pp. 36-53.
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The point of reading Jane Austen is...
Textual Features Mary Lavin
The novel is a treatment of Irishmiddle-class values.The domestic setting, opening strategy, and structure of the novel appear to be influenced by the work of Jane Austen , on whom ML had written her MA thesis.
Kelly, Angeline Agnes. Mary Lavin, Quiet Rebel. Wolfhound Press, 1980, http://PS 3523 A946 Z7 K29 1980 HSS.
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Peterson, Richard F. Mary Lavin. Twayne, 1978.
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Krawschak, Ruth, and Regina Mahlke. Mary Lavin: A Checklist. R. Krawschak, 1979.
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Textual Features Margaret Oliphant
Elisabeth Jay points out that the title might suggest a bildungsroman with a female protagonist, like Emma by Austen , whose fine vein of feminine cynicism
qtd. in
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
60
Oliphant admired.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
66
But Hester, unlike Emma, is...
Textual Features G. B. Stern
A listing of books which GBS feels to be particularly her own includes Jane Austen , Edna St Vincent Millay , Dorothy Parker , and Rebecca West 's essays. But most of the women authors...
Textual Features Kathleen E. Innes
Sources from which excerpts are taken include Jane Austen 's letters, William Cobbett 's Rural Rides, painter Anna Lea Merritt 's book A Hamlet in Old Hampshire, Hampshire Days by William Henry Hudson
Textual Features Margaret Drabble
Frances Wingate is accustomed to working with ancient bones, to conferences in distant countries and interviews in glossy magazines—also to sudden plunges into howling despair. For reasons she does not understand, she has ended a...
Textual Features Viola Meynell
Through satire, gender issues emerge for the first time in Meynell's work: women are portrayed as fatuous, wanting nothing more than to please men; men, in their turn, are dull and ineffectual.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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VM 's...
Textual Features Anne Katharine Elwood
Her narratives detail the life events, character, appearance, and publication histories of the various authors. Frequently, as in the case of Austen , she devotes more time to sketching a physical and mental character than...
Textual Features Mary Lavin
Mary O'Grady treats the subject of the unfolding of a whole human life—a woman's—from young adulthood to death. ML 's heroine here bears her own Christian name, and the heroine's husband, Tom O'Grady, bears the...
Textual Features Virginia Woolf
The book's contents consisted largely of already published journalism, carefully revised for the collection.
McNeillie, Andrew, and Virginia Woolf. “Introduction”. The Common Reader, Annotated Edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984, p. ix - xv.
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Woolf had put detailed consideration into the idea of making a structure for the book, but she ended by rejecting...
Textual Production Catherine Fanshawe
The letters that CF sent to Anne Grant are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their...
Textual Production Joanna Trollope
JA pursued her Austen connection with a talk on her at a charity Christmas supper held at Chawton House Library on 5 December 2015.
Textual Production Joan Aiken
JA again partnered herself with Jane Austen , completing the earlier of Austen's two unfinished novels as Emma Watson, The Watsons Completed.
This unfinished novel, a standing temptation to sequel-writers, was first completed by...
Textual Production Christina Stead
In 1972 CS spent three painful months over a commission to review Quentin Bell 's life of Virginia Woolf . She found many aspects and supposed aspects of Woolf repugnant: her alleged lack of appreciation...

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