Jane Austen

by Catherine Reef

  p. [>] de Feuillide, “the excellence of his Heart...” is from Richard A. Austen-Leigh, p. 168.

  p. [>] Cassandra Leigh Austen, “you, my dear Mary...” is from Richard A. Austen-Leigh, p. 228.

  p. [>] Eliza Austen, “very sensible...” is from Richard A. Austen-Leigh, p. 157.

  p. [>] Anna Austen, “the common-looking carpet...” is quoted in Tomalin, p. 108.

  p. [>] Anna Austen, “I made it a pleasure...” is from Le Faye 1988, p. 418.

  Four: Uprooted

  p. [>] Austen, “I consider everybody...” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 159.

  p. [>] Leigh-Perrot, “To have two Young Creatures...” is quoted in William and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh 1989, p. 109.

  p. [>] Austen, “two very nice sized rooms...” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 40.

  p. [>] Austen, “have more than its’ usual charm...” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 43.

  p. [>] Austen, “appeared exactly as she did...” is quoted in Le Faye 1995, p. 61.

  p. [>] “the girls,” is from Le Faye 1988, p. 144.

  p. 56 Austen, “We have lived long enough...” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 68.

  p. [>] Austen, “The whole World is in a conspiracy...” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 88.

  p. [>] Austen, “has not had the patience...” and “as I do not chuse...” are from Le Faye 1995, p. 71.

  p. [>] Austen, “vapour, shadow, smoke & confusion,” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 82.

  p. [>] Austen, “like any other short girl...” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 86.

  p. [>] Anna Austen, “the short Holyday...” is quoted in William and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh 1989, p. 120.

  p. [>] Henry Austen, “the Temple of delight,” is quoted in Tomalin, p. 136.

  p. [>] de Feuillide, “So awful a dissolution...” is quoted in Le Faye 1979, p. 13.

  p. [>] Anna Austen, “A little talent...” is quoted in Le Faye 1988, p. 419.

  p. [>] Fanny Knight, “was not so refined ...” is quoted in William and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh 1989, p. 252.

  p. [>] Austen, “They came, and they sat...” is from Woolsey, p. 243.

  p. [>] “years of chilly solitude ...” is from “Vanity Fair—and Jane Eyre,” p. 178.

  p. [>] Emma Watson [Austen], “Poverty is a great Evil...” is from J. Austen, The Watsons, p. 255.

  p. [>] Elizabeth Watson [Austen], “I think I could like...” is from J. Austen, The Watsons, p. 256.

  p. [>] Austen, “Angelic Woman,” “as she used to be,” and “Her looks of eager Love ...” are from Selwyn, pp. 8–9.

  p. [>] Austen, “oppression in the head...” and “Being quite insensible ...” are from Le Faye 1995, p. 96.

  p. [>] Austen, “The Serenity of the Corpse...” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 98.

  Five: An Extraordinary Fate

  p. [>] Austen, “Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery...” is from J. Austen, Mansfield Park, p. 312.

  p. [>] Austen, “Seven years I suppose...” is from Chapman 1952, p. 148.

  p. [>] Austen, “His chat seems all forced...” is from Chapman 1952, p. 181.

  p. [>] Austen, “Till I have a travelling purse...” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 135.

  p. [>] Austen, “solid principles...” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 147.

  p. [>] Austen, “dearest Edward ...” is from Chapman 1952, p. 219.

  p. [>] Austen, “I suppose you see ...” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 137.

  p. [>] Caroline Austen, “Her charm to children...” and “She would tell us...” are quoted in William and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh 1989, p. 157.

  p. [>] Caroline Austen, “She would furnish us...” is quoted in James Edward Austen-Leigh, p. 56.

  p. [>] Caroline Austen, “the awful stillness...” is quoted in Halperin, p. 183.

  p. 75 Caroline Austen, “Such was the custom...” is quoted in Halperin, p. 186.

  p. [>] James Edward Austen-Leigh, “often served for her amusement,” and “was as far as possible...” from James Edward Austen-Leigh, pp. 87–88.

  p. [>] Austen, “I can no more forget it...” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 182.

  p. [>] Austen, “strength of understanding...” is from J. Austen, Sense and Sensibility, p. 8.

  p. [>] Austen, “eager in every thing...” is from J. Austen, Sense and Sensibility, p. 8.

  p. [>] Austen, “an absolute old bachelor...” is from J. Austen, Sense and Sensibility, p. 28.

  p. [>] Marianne Dashwood [Austen], “He talked of flannel waistcoats ...” is from J. Austen, Sense and Sensibility, p. 30.

  p. [>] Austen, “he was the husband...” is from J. Austen, Sense and Sensibility, p. 82.

  p. [>] Austen, “though her complexion varied...” is from J. Austen, Sense and Sensibility, p. 94.

  p. [>] Austen, “was born to discover...” is from J. Austen, Sense and Sensibility, p. 268.

  p. [>] Manservant [Austen], “Mr. Ferrars is married,” is from J. Austen, Sense and Sensibility, p. 250.

  p. [>] Austen, “he fled from society...” is from J. Austen, Sense and Sensibility, p. 268.

  p. [>] “intimate knowledge of life...” is from an untitled review of Sense and Sensibility, British Critic, May 1812, p. 527.

  p. [>] “is well written ...” is from Southam 1968, p. 35.

  p. [>] Countess of Bessborough, “It is a clever Novel...” is from Castalia, p. 418.

  p. [>] Princess Charlotte, “‘Sence and Sencibility’ ...” is from Aspinall, p. 26.

  p. [>] Austen, “Marianne Dashwood was born...” is from J. Austen, Sense and Sensibility, p. 267.

  Six: Light, Bright, and Sparkling

  p. [>] Mary Bennet [Austen], “Pride relates more to our opinion...” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 14.

  p. [>] Austen, “It is a truth...” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 3.

  p. [>] Austen, “the business of her life,” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 4.

  p. [>] Darcy [Austen], “tolerable; but not handsome...” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 9.

  p. [>] Austen, “rendered uncommonly intelligent...” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 16.

  p. [>] “Elizabeth has a thousand faults...” is from “Reputations Reconsidered: Jane Austen,” p. 263.

  p. [>] Elizabeth Bennet [Austen], “People themselves alter so much...” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 30.

  p. [>] Austen, “I must confess...” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 201.

  p. [>] Collins [Austen], “It is usual with young ladies...” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 73.

  p. [>] Elizabeth Bennet [Austen], “Can I speak plainer?” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 74.

  p. [>] Darcy [Austen], “a most unhappy connection,” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 131.

  p. [>] Darcy [Austen], “the total want of propriety;” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 130.

  p. [>] Elizabeth Bennet [Austen], “How despicably I have acted...” and “Till this moment...” are from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 137.

  p. [>] Austen, “to be mistress of Pemberley...” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 159.

  p. [>] Austen, “She began now to comprehend...” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 202.

  p. [>] de Bourgh [Austen], “the upstart pretensions...” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 232.

  p. [>] Elizabeth Bennet [Austen], “He is a gentleman...” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 232.

  p. [>] de Bourgh [Austen], “True. You are a gentleman’s daughter...” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 232.

  p. [>] Darcy [Austen], “My affections and wishes...” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 239.

  p. [>] Austen, “gave him to understand...” is from J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 239.

  p. [>] “By the Author of Sense and Sensibility,” is quoted in Tomalin, p. 221.

  p. [>] “very far superior...” an
d “excites the interest,” and “sense and conduct...” are quoted in Halperin, p. 210.

  p. [>] Austen, “The work is rather too light...” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 203.

  p. [>] Fanny Knight, “[Aunt Jane] & I...” is quoted in Tomalin, p. 239.

  p. [>] Austen, “The Secret has spread so far...” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 231.

  p. [>] Mitford, “Wickham is equally bad ...” is from L’Estrange, p. 300.

  p. [>] Twain, “Every time I read ...” is quoted in Southam 1987, p. 232.

  p. [>] Twain, “the thing involved ...” and “that there are fine things ...” are quoted in Auerbach. p. 100 Henry Austen, “a woman of brilliant generous and cultivated mind ...” is quoted in Le Faye 2002, p. 172.

  p. [>] Austen, “exactly herself...” is from Chapman 1952, p. 310.

  p. [>] Austen, “I can only imagine ...” is from Woolsey, p. 193.

  p. [>] Austen, “Mrs. F. is not careful enough...” and “You are but now coming...” are from Chapman 1952, p. 401.

  p. [>] Austen, “not to think of accepting...” is from Chapman 1952, p. 410.

  Seven: Vice and Virtue

  p. [>] Austen, “What strange creatures...” is from Chapman 1952, p. 408.

  p. [>] Austen, “Poor Woman ...” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 208.

  p. [>] Princess Charlotte, “Heaven defend any poor girl...” is quoted in Richardson, p. 90.

  p. [>] Mrs. Norris [Austen], “Wherever you are...” is from J. Austen, Mansfield Park, pp. 151–152.

  p. [>] Austen, “young people of fortune,” and “vicious conduct,” are from J. Austen, Mansfield Park, p. 30.

  p. [>] Mary Crawford [Austen], “Be honest and poor...” is from J. Austen, Mansfield Park, p. 147.

  p. [>] Austen, “Children of the same family...” is from J. Austen, Mansfield Park, p. 161.

  p. [>] Mary Crawford [Austen], “Fanny Price! Nonsense...” is from J. Austen, Mansfield Park, p. 157.

  p. [>] Henry Crawford [Austen], “But I cannot be satisfied...” is from J. Austen, Mansfield Park, p. 157.

  p. [>] Austen, “how wretched...” is from J. Austen, Mansfield Park, p. 220.

  p. [>] “Mansfield Park is altogether an old book...” is from Bloom 2008, p. 150.

  p. [>] Mitford, “stiffened into the most perpendicular...” is from Mitford, p. 127.

  p. [>] Henry Austen, “Her voice was extremely sweet...” is quoted in Southam, p. 83.

  p. [>] Cassandra Austen, “Fond of Fanny” and the other opinions of Mansfield Park are from Chapman 1980, pp. 432–435.

  p. [>] Austen, “Emma, Dedicated by Permission ...” is quoted in Tomalin, p. 249.

  p. [>] Austen [Murray], “To His Royal Highness...” is from J. Austen, Emma, frontispiece. p. 115 Clarke, “The Habits of Life and Character...” is from Chapman 1952, p. 430.

  p. [>] Austen, “Such a man’s conversation...” is from Chapman 1952, p. 443.

  p. [>] Clarke, “Do let us have an English Clergyman...” is from Chapman 1952, pp. 444–445.

  p. [>] Austen, “The most excellent Man ...” and other quotations from “Plan of a Novel” are from Chapman 1980, pp. 428–430.

  Eight: “If I Live to Be an Old Woman ...”

  p. [>] Austen, “There are so many...” is from J. Austen, Persuasion, p. 103.

  p. [>] Austen, “The real evils ...” is from J. Austen, Emma, p. 1.

  p. [>] Austen, “the stain of illegitimacy,” is from J. Austen, Emma, p. 317.

  p. [>] Austen, “in possession of an independent fortune...” is from J. Austen, Emma, p. 117.

  p. [>] Mrs. Elton [Austen], “How do you like...” is from J. Austen, Emma, p. 211.

  p. [>] Austen, “youth had passed ...” is from J. Austen, Emma, p. 12.

  p. [>] Austen, “Never had she felt...” is from J. Austen, Emma, p. 246.

  p. [>] Austen, “Emma felt the tears...” is from J. Austen, Emma, pp. 246–247.

  p. [>] Austen, “Till now that she was threatened...” is from J. Austen, Emma, p. 272.

  p. [>] Austen, “What did she say ...” is from J. Austen, Emma, p. 283.

  p. [>] Mrs. Austen, “more entertaining...” and the other opinions of Emma are from Chapman 1980, pp. 436–439.

  p. [>] Scott, “the author displays her peculiar powers ...” is from Scott, p. 196.

  p. [>] Scott, “to the reader ...” is from Scott, p. 193.

  p. [>] Trollope, “very tedious...” is from Ferguson, p. 461.

  p. [>] Austen, “Miss Catherine...” and “I hope Heaven...” are from Le Faye 1995, p. 333.

  p. [>] Caroline Austen, “My uncle had been living ...” is from Caroline Austen, p. 48.

  p. [>] Austen, “Composition seems to me...” is from Le Faye 1995, p. 321.

  p. [>] Austen, “stronger than I was ...” from Le Faye 1995, p. 326.

  p. [>] Austen, “just a little pain...” from Le Faye 1995, p. 329.

  p. [>] Caroline Austen, “never looked comfortable...” is quoted in Tomalin, p. 263.

  p. [>] Caroline Austen, “quite like an invalide ...” is quoted in Tomalin, p. 265.

  p. [>] Austen, “gradually removed the Evil,” from Le Faye 1995, p. 340.

  p. [>] Austen, “to my dearest Sister ...” is from Jane Austen’s will, which is in the collections of the National Archives of Great Britain. p. 132 Austen, “Now, that’s the sort of thing...” from Le Faye 1995, pp. 340–341.

  p. [>] Austen, “If I live to be ...” from Le Faye 1995, p. 341.

  p. [>] Mary Austen, “stay’d with Jane...,” “Jane Austen worse ...,” and “Jane in great danger ...” are quoted in Tomalin, p. 268.

  p. [>] James Austen, “We can no longer flatter ourselves...” is from Tucker, p. 111.

  Nine: Lasting Words

  p. [>] Austen, “There is no charm equal...” is from J. Austen, Emma, p. 174.

  p. [>] Austen, “These races & revels ...” is from Chapman 1980, p. 452.

  p. [>] Mary Austen, “Jane breathed her last...” and Cassandra Austen, “She was the sun ...” are quoted in Tomalin, p. 272.

  p. [>] James Austen, “In her (rare union) ...” is from Selwyn, p. 257.

  p. [>] Henry Austen, “the benevolence of her heart...” is quoted in Halperin, p. 8.

  p. [>] Austen, “not in the least...” and “as anybody might expect,” are from J. Austen, Northanger Abbey, p. 5.

  p. [>] Austen, “Almost pretty,” is from J. Austen, Northanger Abbey, p. 6.

  p. [>] Austen, “a very gentleman-like” is from J. Austen, Northanger Abbey, p. 14.

  p. [>] John Thorpe [Austen], “the finest girl in Bath,” is from J. Austen, Northanger Abbey, p. 65.

  p. [>] Catherine Morland [Austen], “a fine old place...” is from J. Austen, Northanger Abbey, p. 107.

  p. [>] Austen, “the blackest suspicions,” is from J. Austen, Northanger Abbey, p. 128.

  p. [>] Henry Tilney [Austen], “Dear Miss Morland...” is from J. Austen, Northanger Abbey, p. 136.

  p. [>] Austen, “The visions of romance...” is from J. Austen, Northanger Abbey, p. 136.

  p. [>] Austen, “a man of fortune...” is from J. Austen, Northanger Abbey, p. 172.

  p. [>] General Tilney [Austen], “to be a fool...” is from J. Austen, Northanger Abbey, p. 172.

  p. [>] Austen, “There seems almost a general wish...” is from J. Austen, Northanger Abbey, pp. 22–23.

  p. [>] Austen, “feeling himself ill-used...” is from J. Austen, Persuasion, p. 19.

  p. [>] Austen, “attachment and regrets...” is from J. Austen, Persuasion, pp. 19–20.

  p. [>] Austen, “was nobody with either father or sister...” is from J. Austen, Persuasion, p. 5.

  p. [>] Anne Elliot [Austen], “All the privilege I claim...” is from J. Austen, Persuasion, p. 157.

  p. [>] Frederick Wentworth [Austen], “Dare not say that man forgets...” is from J. Austen, Persuasion, p. 158.

  p. [>] Austen, “When any two young people...” and �
�maturity of mind ...” are from J. Austen, Persuasion, p. 165.

  p. [>] Austen, “dread of a future war...” is from J. Austen, Persuasion, p. 168.

  p. [>] Austen, “How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been...” is from J. Austen, Persuasion, p. 21.

  p. 150 Cassandra Austen, “Dear, dear Jane...” is quoted in Chapman 1937, p. 116.

  Afterword

  p. [>] Austen, “The person, be it gentleman or lady...” is from J. Austen, Northanger Abbey, p. 72.

  p. [>] Austen-Leigh, “However little I may have to tell...” is from James Edward Austen-Leigh, p. 3.

  p. [>] “She has ceased to be ...” is from Bailey, p. 30.

  p. [>] Kipling, “There’s no one to touch Jane ...” is from Kipling, p. 752.

  p. [>] Maugham, “Nothing very much happens...” is from Maugham, p. 67

  Selected Bibliography

  Aspinall, A., ed. Letters of the Princess Charlotte, 1811–1817. London: Home and Van Thal, 1949.

  Auerbach, Emily. “‘A Barkeeper Entering the Kingdom of Heaven’: Did Mark Twain Really Hate Jane Austen?” Virginia Quarterly Review, winter 1999. Available online. URL: www.vqronline.org/articles/1999/winter/auerbach-bar-keeper-entering/. Downloaded on April 26, 2010.

  Austen, Caroline. Reminiscences of Caroline Austen. N.p.: Jane Austen Society, 1986.

  Austen, Henry. “Biographical Notice of the Author.” In Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, by Jane Austen. London: John Murray, 1818.

  Austen, Jane. Catharine and Other Writings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

  ———. Emma. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2000.

  ———. Mansfield Park. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1998.

  ———. Northanger Abbey. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2004.

  ———. Persuasion. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1995.

  ———. Pride and Prejudice. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2001.

  ———. Sense and Sensibility. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2002.

  ———. The Watsons, in Northanger Abbey; Lady Susan; The Watsons; Sanditon. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003.

  Austen-Leigh, James Edward. A Memoir of Jane Austen. London: R. Bentley and Son, 1872.