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Austen-Leigh, William, and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh. Jane Austen: A Family Record. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1989.
———. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record. London: John Murray, 1913.
Bailey, John. Introductions to Jane Austen. London: Oxford University Press, 1931.
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Bloom, Harold. Jane Austen. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2008.
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Burney, Frances. Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Castalia, Countess Granville, ed. Lord Granville Leveson Gower (First Earl Granville): Private Correspondence, 1781 to 1821. Vol 2. London: John Murray, 1916.
Chapman, R. W. Jane Austen: Facts and Problems. Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, 1949.
———. “Jane Austen’s Text: Authoritative Manuscript Corrections.” Times Literary Supplement, February 13, 1937, [>].
———, ed. Jane Austen’s Letters to Her Sister Cassandra and Others. London: Oxford University Press, 1952.
———, ed. The Novels of Jane Austen. Vol. 6: Minor Works. London: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Vol. 2. London: Henry Colburn, 1843.
Ferguson, Frances, ed. Jane Austen’s Emma. New York: Pearson/Long-man, 2006.
Francklin, Thomas. Matilda: A Tragedy. London: T. Cadell, 1775.
The Habits of Good Society: A Handbook for Ladies and Gentlemen. New York: Carleton, 1869.
Halperin, John. The Life of Jane Austen. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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Le Faye, Deirdre. “Anna Lefroy’s Original Memories of Jane Austen.” Review of English Studies, August 1988, pp. 417–421.
———. “Jane Austen and Her Hancock Relatives.” Review of English Studies, February 1979, [>].
———. Jane Austen’s “Outlandish Cousin.” London: British Library, 2002.
———, ed. Jane Austen’s Letters. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1995.
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“Letters to the Editor: Jane Austen.” Times Literary Supplement, September 15, 1954, p. 591.
Mack, Robert L., ed. The Loiterer. Lewiston, N.Y: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
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Mitford, Mary Russell. The Letters of Mary Russell Mitford. Port Washington, N.Y: Kennikat Press, 1972.
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Jane Austen’s Works
Jane Austen is known best for her six novels, which were published anonymously between 1811 and 1818. She also wrote stories, plays, poems, satires, and letters that she never intended to publish, and she began two novels that she never finished. After Austen was recognized as one of the world’s great novelists, all her writing found its way into print.
THE SIX COMPLETED NOVELS
Today’s readers can choose from many editions of Austen’s novels, but these were the first.
Sense and Sensibility. London: Thomas Egerton, 1811.
Pride and Prejudice. London: Thomas Egerton, 1813.
Mansfield Park. London: Thomas Egerton, 1814.
Emma. London: John Murray 1816 (released in December 1815).
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. London: John Murray 1818 (released in December 1817).
THE UNFINISHED NOVELS
These two works were published most recently in a single volume.
Sanditon & The Watsons. Mineola, N.Y: Dover Publications, 2007.
THE WRITING OF JANE AUSTEN’S YOUTH
Juvenilia. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Lady Susan. New York: Garland Publishing, 1989.
POETRY
The Poetry of Jane Austen and the Austen Family, edited by David Selwyn. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997.
LETTERS
This is the most recent complete edition of Austen’s correspondence.
Jane Austen’s Letters, edited by Deirdre Le Faye. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Picture Credits
With permission from the Provost and Scholars of King’s College, Cambridge: 2
© National Portrait Gallery, London: 4, 34, 40
Library of Congress: 6, 9, 13, 36, 48, 52, 58, 59, 61, 77, 79, 81, 89, 90, 100, 105, 111, 120, 138, 140, 141, 142, 144, 149
Photofest: 8, 82, 93, 109, 125, 146, 154
T06734 by The Tate Gallery/Digital Image © Tate, London 2009 Portrait of Sir Francis Ford’s Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy, Sir William Beechey, 1753–1839: 16
Knight Family Collection, Chawton House Library (www.chawton-house.org): 19
Museum of London: 20
Jane Austen Memorial Trust: 14, 23, 31, 44, 45, 62, 95, 113, 126, 128, 130
The British Library Board shelfmark Add 59874, f, 8JV-86; 1267.f.21, plate 3: 29, 51
The Pierpont Morgan Library/Art Resource, NY: 56, 75
National Library of Medicine: 68
The University of Southampton: 71
Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations: 85
The National Archives of Great Britain: 133
Index
Note: Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
abbeys, [>]
Addison’s disease, [>]
American Revolution, [>]
“Angelic Woman” (Austen), [>]
Austen, Anna (daughter of James), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Austen, Anne Mathew (wife of James), [>], [>]
Austen, Caroline (daughter of James), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Austen, Cassandra (sister), [>]
childhood of, [>],
[>]
engagement of, [>], [>]–[>]
and family matters, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
illustrations by, 29
and Jane’s illness and death, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and Jane’s novels, [>], 150
letters to and from Jane, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], 56, [>]
personal traits of, [>]
portrait of Jane by, [>]–[>], [>]
schooling of, [>]–[>]
socializing, [>], [>]
and spinsterhood, [>], 75
Austen, Cassandra Leigh (mother), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
in Bath, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
financial concerns of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and travel, [>]
Austen, Charles (brother):
birth of, [>]
and Jane, [>]
marriages and family of, [>], [>]–[>]
in the navy, [>], [>]
Austen, Edward (brother):
adoption of, [>], [>]; see also Knight, Edward
in Bath, [>]
childhood of, [>], [>]
marriage and family of, [>]–[>], [>]
Austen, Eliza (cousin and wife of Henry):
and Austen family, [>], [>], [>]
death of, [>], [>]
early life of, [>]–[>]
marriage to Henry, [>]–[>]
personal traits of, [>]–[>]
and son’s death, [>], [>] see also Feuillide, Eliza Hancock de
Austen, Elizabeth (daughter of Edward), [>]
Austen, Elizabeth Bridges (wife of Edward), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Austen, Fanny (daughter of Edward), [>], [>] see also Knight, Fanny
Austen, Frances Palmer (wife of Charles), [>]
Austen, Frank (brother), [>], [>]
childhood of, [>]
death of, [>]
and family matters, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and Martha, [>]
and Mary, [>], [>], [>]
at sea, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Austen, George (brother), [>]
Austen, Rev. George (father), [>]–[>], [>], [>]
as clergyman, [>], [>]
family of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
illness and death of, [>]–[>], [>]
move to Bath, [>], [>]
travel of, [>]
Austen, Harriet (daughter of Charles), [>]
Austen, Henry (brother), [>]
and Austen family matters, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
as banker, [>], [>], [>]
childhood of, [>]
as clergyman, [>], [>]
and Jane, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
and The Loiterer, [>]
marriage to Eliza, [>]–[>]
in militia, [>]
Austen, James (brother), [>]
and Austen family matters, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
childhood of, [>]
as clergyman, [>], [>]
and Eliza, [>]
family of, [>], [>]
and Jane’s death, [>]–[>]
and The Loiterer, [>]
and Mary, [>]–[>]
at Oxford, [>]–[>]
teen years of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Austen, James Edward (son of James), [>], [>]
Austen, Jane:
and Austen family matters, [>]–[>], 75, [>]–[>], [>]
biographies of, [>]–[>]
birth and childhood of, [>]–[>]
and candidates for marriage, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
death of, [>], [>]–[>]
and Eliza, [>]–[>], [>]
exhibitions of artifacts of, [>]
health concerns of, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
and Henry, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
influence on other writers, [>]–[>]
Juvenilia of, [>]–[>], [>]
novels by, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]; see also specific titles
novels read by, [>]–[>]
personal traits of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and piano playing, [>], [>], [>]
“Plan of a Novel,” [>]–[>]
portraits of, [>]–[>], [>], 34
reputation of, [>]–[>]
schooling of, [>]–[>]
socializing, [>], [>]–[>]
teen years of, [>]–[>]
will written by, [>], 133
writing stories, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Austen, Mary (wife of Frank), [>], [>], [>]
Austen, Mary Jane (daughter of Frank), [>]
Austen, Mary Lloyd (wife of James), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Austen family, [>]
children of, [>]–[>]
family tree, viii
illness and death in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
and Jane’s novels, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
and money matters, [>]–[>]
residences of, [>]
socializing, [>], [>]–[>]
Austen-Leigh, James Edward (nephew), [>]
A Memoir of Jane Austen, [>]–[>]
Bath:
Austen family in, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Austen parents’ move to, [>]–[>]
life in, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Sydney Gardens, [>]–[>]
Battle of Waterloo, [>]
Becoming Jane (film), [>]
Bennet, Elizabeth (fict.), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Bennet family (fict.), [>]–[>]
Bertram, Sir Thomas (fict.), [>]
Bessborough, Countess of, [>]
Bigeon, Madame, [>]
Bigg, Alethea, [>], [>], [>]
Bigg, Catherine, [>], [>], [>]
Bigg, Elizabeth, [>], [>]
Bigg family, [>], [>], [>]
Bigg-Wither, Harris, [>]–[>]
Blackall, Rev. Samuel, [>]–[>], [>]
Bonaparte, Napoleon, [>]
Bramstone, Augusta, [>]
Brontë, Charlotte, [>]
Brothers, The (Austen), [>], [>], [>] see also Sanditon
Brunton, Mary, Self-Control, [>]
Burney, Fanny, Cecilia, [>]
Cadell, Thomas, [>]
Caroline of Brunswick, [>]–[>]
Castle Square, Southampton, [>]–[>], [>]
Catherine (Austen), [>]
as Susan, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>] see also Northanger Abbey
Cawley, Mrs., [>]
Charlotte, Princess, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Chawton Cottage, Southampton, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Chawton House, [>], [>]
Clarence, Duke of, [>]
Clarke, Rev. James Stanier, [>]–[>]
Clueless (film), [>]
Cooper, Jane, [>]–[>], [>]
Covent Garden, London, [>]
Cowley, Hannah, [>]–[>]
Crawford, Henry and Mary (fict.), [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Crosby, Richard, [>], [>]
Darcy, Fitzwilliam (fict.), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Dashwood, Elinor and Marianne (fict.), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Defoe, Daniel, [>]–[>], [>]
The Adventures of Robert Drury, [>]
Robinson Crusoe, [>]
Drury Lane Theatre, London, [>], [>]
Edgeworth, Maria, Belinda, [>]
Egerton, Thomas, [>], [>], [>]
Eighteenth century:
dancing in, [>], [>]
education in, [>], [>]–[>]
incomes in, [>]
literature in, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
marriage in , [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
poverty in, 16,[>], [>]
religion in, [>]
silhouettes in, [>], 34
smallpox in, [>]–[>]
social classes in, [>]–[>], 16, [>], 62
social rules in, [>]
Elinor and Marianne (Austen), [>]–[>], [>] see also Sense and S
ensibility
Elliot, Anne (fict.), [>]–150, [>], 149
Elliots, The (Austen), later Persuasion, [>], [>], [>]–150
Emma (Austen), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
and Clueless, [>], [>]
dedication of, [>]–[>]
film of, [>]
plot of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
public reactions to, [>]–[>]
quotation from, [>]
England, see Great Britain
Feuillide, Eliza Hancock de:
and Cassandra, [>]
first marriage of, [>]
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