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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Intertextuality and Influence Emily Eden
EE 's preface explains that she first set this novel in what was then the present day: the pre-Reform-Bill, pre-railway era. She did not wish to update it in revising, so it is now set...
Intertextuality and Influence L. E. L.
The story opens with a situation borrowed from Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice: a mother desperate to get five daughters safely married because the family estate is entailed away in default of a...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Gore
The title-page quotes and very slightly alters four lines from Pope beginning What gay ideas crowd the vacant brain,
Gore, Catherine. Mothers and Daughters. Bentley, 1849.
title-page
but whereas Pope's imaginary Teresa Blount was daydreaming idly and innocently of the dukes and...
Intertextuality and Influence Edna O'Brien
EOB has named many women writers as important to her: she includes among these Jane Austen , Emily Dickinson , Elizabeth Bowen , Anna Akhmatova , Anita Brookner , and Margaret Atwood , adding: Every...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Gore
The title-page quotes the passage in Swift 's Gulliver's Travels where the King of Brobdingnag hears from Gulliver about English politics and marvels that human grandeur can be mimicked by such contemptible insects.
qtd. in
Gore, Catherine. The Hamiltons; or, Official Life in 1830. R. Bentley, 1850.
title-page
The...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Strutt
Influence of Frances Burney 's Evelina is perceptible here, and influence of Jane Austen seems at least a possibility: a family estate is named Maple Grove, as in Emma, and the heroine's marriage to...
Intertextuality and Influence Dorothy Whipple
Unfortunately as published it contains almost no dates. In the early pages DW writes a deliberately commonplace style, but often records glimpses of people or overheard conversations for possible use in fiction. She relates the...
Intertextuality and Influence Molly Keane
This, like Good Behaviour, is a black comedy set in a crumbling Anglo-Irishbig house, Durraghglass. Unlike Good Behaviour it sets its protagonist family (of the same generation as Aroon St Charles) in...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Inchbald
The Critical covered EI 's version (which had a staggering run of forty-two performances) and Stephen Porter's in the same review.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 24 (1798): 431
It was Inchbald's translation round which Jane Austen built...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth B. Lester
Longman 's reader (our literary friend
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 449
) had suggested as title Isadora; or, The Force of First Love.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 449
This novel too was attributed to Mrs Ross, perhaps because of...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Gore
Like its predecessor, this novel recalls Jane Austen , but this time the plot (at least the earlier part) is closer to that of Sense and Sensibility. Marcia, a sensible elder sister, makes a...
Intertextuality and Influence E. M. Delafield
The novel presents a conflict of values between an optimist, a benign canon whose five children have trouble living under his Victorian principles, and a cynic, a World War One veteran who has published an...
Intertextuality and Influence Dodie Smith
The book is narrated in the first person by seventeen-year-old Cassandra, a budding writer. As she explains, I am writing this journal partly to practise my newly acquired speed-writing and partly to teach myself how...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Louisa Molesworth
In each of these stories a male character knows an attractive woman only by a single feature of her appearance. In Bronzie a schoolboy becomes obsessed with a young woman he observes from behind in...
Intertextuality and Influence Edith Mary Moore
The title-page quotes from Shakespeare (What's past is Prologue) and Cicero (That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood).
Moore, Edith Mary. The Defeat of Woman. C.W. Daniel Co., 1935.
prelims
The chapters run from Women and the Struggle...

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