Jane's Fame

by Claire Harman

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  Notes

  Preface

  1. http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/romance/janeausten addict. html

  2. New York Times, 30 January 1900.

  3. Independent, 26 May 2007.

  4. ‘The Jane Austen Syndrome’, Garber, pp. 199–210.

  5. ‘The Jottings of Sheikh Osama bin Austen’, http://www.feedsfarm.com/article/872310db33673d1295a18f07ae323dfa91116b4b.html and http://www.edsw.usyd.edu.au/research/networks/aele/resources/BROCK_Rebutting_Andrew_Leigh.pdf.

  6. CH, vol. 2, p. 19.

  7. Guardian, 19 July 2007.

  8. Copeland and McMaster, pp. 213 and 211.

  9. By Sylvia Townsend Warner, in her Diaries (London, 1994), p. 250.

  10. CH, vol. 2, p. 244.

  11. Tomalin, p. 285.

  12. http://thedelhiwalla.blogspot.com/2008/05/viewpoint-jane-austen-in-delhi.html

  13. Watt, p. 35.

  14. CH, vol. 2, p.41.

  15. Trilling, p. 42.

  Chapter 1: ‘Authors too ourselves’

  1. Memoir, pp. 81–2.

  2. Braudy, p. 15.

  3. 18–19 December 1798, Letters, p. 26.

  4. Isobel Grundy, ‘Jane Austen and Literary Traditions’, Copeland and McMaster, p. 190.

  5. Juvenilia, p. 180.

  6. Record, p. 64.

  7. 29–30 November 1812, Letters, p. 197.

  8. See the bibliography and notes to Selwyn, Complete Poems of James Austen.

  9. Juvenilia, p. 241.

  10. Record, p. 89n.

  11. ‘Lines Written at Steventon’, Complete Poems, p. 73.

  12. See her letter to her newly married granddaughter, Anna Lefroy, in 1814, Record, p. 218.

  13. The works in question are The Loiterer by James and Henry Austen; Edward Cooper’s Sermons; George Cooke’s Sermons; Cassandra Cooke’s Battleridge: An Historical Romance; James Henry Leigh’s The New Rosciad; Cassandra, Lady Hawke’s Julia de Gramont and the works of Egerton Brydges.

  14. Memoir, p. 90.

  15. See her obituary in Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. 74, pt ii, pp. 1178–9.

  16. Brydges (1834), p. 40.

  17. Sonnet XVI, Brydges (1785), n.p.

  18. Brydges (1834), p. ix.

  19. ibid.

  20. ibid., pp. 40–41.

  21. Memoir, p. 174.

  22. Complete Poems, p.4.

  23. ibid., p. 26.

  24. ibid., p. 20.

  25. Memoir, p. 16.

  26. Austen et al., no. 1, p. 4.

  27. ibid., p. 3.

  28. ibid., p. 4.

  29. ibid., no. 53, pp. 328–9.

  30. ibid., no. 9, p. 52

  31. Peter Sabor gives a very useful summary of the various arguments for and against the identification of Austen as ‘Sophia Sentiment’ in his edition of Austen’s Juvenilia, pp. 356–62.

  32. Austen et al., no. 60, p. 365.

  33. Tucker, p. 99.

  34. Austen et al., no. 1, p. 3.

  35. Some critics believe that these two plays could have been by James himself, but Peter Sabor’s noting of a manuscript change from ‘they’ to ‘it’ makes it much more likely that JA is referring to her own works. See Juvenilia, p.61 and notes.

  36. Juvenilia, p. 65.

  37. ibid., p. 71.

  38. ibid., p. 154.

  39. Mary Leigh’s ‘History of the Leigh Family’ and her husband’s note about her novel-writing are in the Leigh MSS at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office, DR 671/77a.

  40. Gilson, p. 89.

  41. See, for example, Cassandra Cooke’s unpublished letter to Fanny Burney d’Arblay of 22 November 1796, MS British Library, Egerton 3698, f. 127.

  42. Burney, vol. 3, p. 137.

  43. ibid, p. 140.

  44. For this, and connections between Camilla and other Austen works, see my Fanny Burney: A Biography, pp. 268–70.

  45. Critical Review, n.d., quoted in Raven et al., p. 778.

  46. Farnell Parsons, ‘Jane Austen’s Passage to Derbyshire’, Report 2002, pp. 34–9.

  47. Brydges, preface to Mary de Clifford, p. iv.

  48. Brydges (1834), p. 6.

  49. Brydges, Mary de Clifford, p. 208.

  50. P&P, p .403.

  51. Letters, p. 22.

  52. Brydges (1834), p. 10.

  53. Letters, p. 22.

  54. MS Morgan, 2911.

  55. Record, p. 104.

  56. P&P, p .41; NA, pp. 107–8.

  57. Letters, p. 26.

  58. St Clair, p. 249.

  59. Letters, p. 199.

  60. Cassandra Austen to Mary Lloyd, 30 November 1796, Record, p. 99.

  61. L’Estrange, p. 305.

  62. Record, p. 50.

  63. 8–9 January 1799, Letters, p. 35.

  64. Lett
ers, p. 44.

  65. Gilson, p. 24.

  66. NA, p. 30.

  67. CH, vol. 2, pp. 228–9.

  Chapter 2: Praise and Pewter

  1. Memoir, p. 106.

  2. Letters, p. 289.

  3. MS Morgan, 2911.

  4. For details of the 1800 pamphlet, see Gilson, item L3, and Laura M. Ragg, Jane Austen in Bath.

  5. See Memoir, p. 105 and n. and Gilson, p. 83.

  6. Letters, p. 174 and CR, vol. 5, pp. 78–83.

  7. Letters, p. 182.

  8. 24 January 1809, Letters, p. 169.

  9. Letters, p. 174.

  10. ibid., p. 175.

  11. Sutherland, p. 147.

  12. Memoir, p. 149.

  13. Letters, p. 202.

  14. ibid., p. 182.

  15. ibid., p. 186.

  16. Record, p. 188.

  17. CH, vol.1, p.35.

  18. Aspinall, p. 26.

  19. ‘Opinions of Mansfield Park: collected and transcribed by Jane Austen’, CH, vol. 1, p. 51

  20. Record, p. 191.

  21. Letters, p. 217.

  22. Complete Poems, p. 39.

  23. ‘Lines written at Steventon in the Autumn of 1814, after refusing to exchange that Living for Marsh Gibbon in the borders of Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire’, Complete Poems, p. 71.

  24. Letters, p. 121.

  25. ibid., p. 76.

  26. Cooper (1815), pp. 262–3

  27. Letters, p. 322.

  28. Memoir, p. 27.

  29. 29 January 1813, Letters, p. 202.

  30. 29–30 November 1812, Letters, p. 179.

  31. Letters, p. 217.

  32. 29 January 1813, Letters, p. 201.

  33. For data here, see St Clair, appendix 1, and Jan Fergus, ‘The professional woman writer’, in Copeland and McMaster, The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen.

  34. Letters, p. 201.

  35. Le Faye, Fanny Knight’s Diaries, p. 25.

  36. 24 May 1813, Letters, pp. 212–13.

  37. MS British Library, add. ms 41253, f. 17.

  38. CH, vol. 1, p. 8.

  39. ibid., pp. 42, 46–7.

  40. Letters, p. 213.

  41. Tomalin, p. 238.

  42. MS British Library, add. ms 41253, f. 19.

  43. 25 September 1813, Letters, p. 231.

  44. ibid., p. 250.

  45. 3–6 July 1813, Letters, p. 217.

  46. ‘Opinions of Mansfield Park’, CH, vol. 1, p. 50.