Jane Austen

Wicked Wit of Jane Austen by Dominique Enright

The Wicked Wit of Jane Austen is an absorbing collection of Jane Austen's sharpest, most profound and amusing observations -- on human nature, money, marriage, life and society -- taken from her novels and also from her extremely entertaining letters. Easy to dip in to and highly quotable, this beautifully decorated volume will delight all Austen devotees, as well as readers less familiar with her life and work.0 points

A Preface to Jane Austen by Christopher Gillie, Gillie Christopher

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Jane Austen's Family: Through Five Generations by Maggie Lane

This book offers an intimate and intriguing account of Jane Austen's relations, from 1704, when her great-grandmother was left a widow with six children to support, through to 1870, and the destinies of her many nephews and nieces. Drawing extensively on letters and memoirs written by the Austen family over a period of 150 years, this book traces the development of the family from vigorous Georgian opportunism to respectable Victorian gentility.0 points

Jane Austen and Leisure by David Selwyn

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Jane Austen's 'Outlandish Cousin': The Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide by Deirdre Le Faye

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WOMEN'S WICKED WIT: From Jane Austen to Roseanne Barr by Michelle Lovric

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Jane Austen: Writer of Fancy (Notable Lives) by Peter J. Leithart

Two centuries after her works were first published, Jane Austen's novels are still best-sellers. Jane Austen provides an overview of the life, character, and legacy of a modest artist who knew her limitations, devoted herself to her craft, and avoided the developing culture of celebrity and hype. Paying attention to the details of life around her, this highly imaginative and thoroughly practical woman rendered these particulars with precision in her novels.0 points

Jane Austen out of the blue by Donald Measham

Towards the end of 1817 a lady novelist, less well-known then than she is now begins a novel on an unusual subject: the rise of 'Sanditon' as a sea-side resort. She dies with only a quarter of it written. What was going on in the writer's mind? What could have happened in her story next? Sanditon is a place where anyone (real or fictitious) may turn up for the water cure. They do! Yes, it's a novel, but one which has been described as 'also a subtle and felt form of literary criticism.'0 points

A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter

We only know a surprisingly small number of eighteenth-century women as personalities. This is true, in particular, of women who had to work for their living. Which is why the survival of the letters and journals of Miss Agnes Porter, dating from 1788 to 1814, constitutes an unusually important find.

Miss Porter, the daughter of a Church of England clergyman, was born in 1752 with brains but not looks or wealth. Although she would have liked to marry, her various hopes ended in disappointment. She...0 points

The Reception Of Jane Austen In Europe (The Athlone Critical Traditions Series: the Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe)

This volume of international research provides a wide-ranging account of Jane Austen's reception across the length and breadth of Europe, from Russia and Finland in the North to Italy and Spain in the South. In historical terms, the survey ranges from the near-contemporary - since Austen's novels were available in French very soon after their original publication - to modern times, in those countries which for various reasons, linguistic, historical or ideological, have taken up the novels only...0 points

Jane Austen by Elbert Hubbard, Fra Elbert Hubbard

THIS 28 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great: Famous Women, by Elbert Hubbard. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766104044.0 points

Jane Austen by Elbert Hubbard, Fra Elbert Hubbard

THIS 28 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great: Famous Women, by Elbert Hubbard. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766104044.0 points

The Mostly Jane Austen Reader by Jane Austen, Emily Atwater

Eight Complete Works by Jane Austen:
Persuasion (1818)
Emma (1816)
Mansfield Park (1814)
Pride And Prejudice (1813)
Sense And Sensibility (1811)
Northanger Abbey (1803)
Lady Susan (1795)
Love And Freindship (1790)

Prospect And Refuge in the Landscape of Jane Austen by Barbara Britton Wenner

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Jane Austen: Antipodean views

Jane Austen wrote her six novels in a small English village almost 200 years ago. She never traveled abroad and she never mentioned Australia or New Zealand. So why do people "down under" read her novels today? Why do they watch films based on her books in record-breaking numbers? Why do they find her plots, characters and ideas so relevant to their lives?

Jane Austen - Antipodean Views shows just what Jane Austen means to poets and politicians, singers and students, actors and All Blacks, composers...

The Life Of Jane Austen by Goldwin Smith

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1890 edition by Walter Scott, London.0 points

Prospect And Refuge in the Landscape of Jane Austen by Barbara Britton Wenner

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The Talk in Jane Austen by Lynn Weinlos Gregg

Jane Austen's novels have been widely read and discussed, but one topic that is rarely studied is her use of speech. In this volume, writers from around the world consider Austen's sometimes playful, always witty and significant use of dialogue. Features contributions from Juliet McMaster, Isobel Grundy, Linda Bree, Gary Kelly, Jan Fergus, Jocelyn Harris, Kay Young and others.0 points

Jane Austen (Writers and Their Work Series) by Robert Miles

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The Life Of Jane Austen by Goldwin Smith

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1890 edition by Walter Scott, London.0 points