Austen jane biography roen

  • Henry Thomas Austen's "Biographical Notice" was the first Austen biography.
  • Thought to have been written when Austen was between the ages of 11 and 17, they contain stories, dramatic sketches and a spoof history.
  • Today in Mighty Girl history, beloved English novelist Jane Austen was born in Austen is internationally recognized as one of the.

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    The racy side of Jane Austen

    Fiona Macdonald

    Features correspondent

    Alamy

    To mark the bicentenary of the British author’s death, the British Library has brought together the three notebooks that survive from her early years. Fiona Macdonald takes a peek.

    “Jane Austen’s earliest writings appear to have little in common with the restrained and realistic gemenskap portrayed in her adult novels,” writes Kathryn Sutherland, a professor of English at the University of Oxford. “By contrast, they are exuberantly expressionistic tales of sexual misdemeanour, of female drunkenness and violence.”

    A different side to the British novelist can be seen in the three notebooks of her early writings that still survive. Thought to have been written when Austen was between the ages of 11 and 17, they contain stories, dramatic sketches and a spoof history. For the first time in 40 years, they’ve been brought together for a display at the British Library. They reveal a precocious talent –

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    A FEW WORDS ON FORMAT: the Bibliography has five sections:

     

        1. Austen Editions:  original works, under Austen if no extensive annotation or editing is involved, otherwise under the editor’s name

        2. Austen Circle:  original works/editions by and about Austen family members and friends

        3. Austen Studies:  biographical, critical, and interpretive works

        4. SelectedDissertations:  a select, rather than exhaustive, list of works specifically on Austen

        5. Popular Culture:  sequels, continuations, mash-ups, films, merchandise, etc.

    Explanatory notes are at the end of the document.

    1. Austen Editions

    • Austen, Jane. ArtFolds: Love: Sense and Sensibility. White Plains: Studio Fun, ArtFolds Classic Editions.

    • _____. Emma. Introd. Andrew Motion. London: Vintage, Vintage Classics. 
    • _____. Jane Austen: Complete Novels. Introd. Katie Halsey. New York: Anthem. Ebook edition. Includes all six novels and Lady Susan. 
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      Jane Austen

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      She achieved modest success but little fame during her lifetime with the publication of Sense and Sensibility (), Pride and Prejudice (), Mansfield Park (), and Emma (). She wrote two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both of which were published posthumously in , and started another, Sanditon, but died before it was finished. She also left three volumes of manuscript juvenile writings, the short epistolary novel Lady Susan, and the unfinished novel The Watsons.

      Austen's reputation grew significantly after her death, and her six full-length novels are rarely out of print. Her posthumous reputation changed dramatically in , when her novels were republished in Richard Bentley's Standard Novels series, illustrated by Ferdinand Pickering, and sold as a set. They gradually gained wider recognition and a large readership. In , fifty-two years after her death, her nephew's publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced an eager audience t