Jane Austen

  • Jane Austen: A Companion
    By Laura Dabundo

    notes that she mocks how intra-textual readers respond to Scott and Byron in her novels, not as instances of disdain for the writer but satirically toward the readers and, toward the poets, encomia (Jane Austen and Romantic Poets 7).

  • Jane Austen: A Family Record
    By Deirdre Le Faye

    ... Miss Helen Lefroy , Lexbourne Ltd , Mrs Susan McCartan , Mr and Mrs McEvoy , Mr K. G. McKenna , Mrs C. R. Maggs , Dr Meg Mathies , Mr Duncan Mirylees , Mrs Jo Modert , Mrs V. Moger , Mrs T. M. Morrish , the Trustees of the National ...

  • Jane Austen: A Literary Life
    By Jan Fergus, J. Luke Wood

    Mrs Cawley was a 'connection' — sister of their uncle Dr Edward Cooper, the husband of Jane Leigh, Mrs Austen's sister. Their daughter Jane Cooper was 12 years old and had been enrolled with her cousins at the school, which moved to ...

  • Jane Austen
    By Amy Ruth

    See also Austen , Mary Lloyd Lloyd family , 29 Love and Freindship , 30 lower classes , 10 , 21 Scott , Sir Walter , 92 Sense and Sensibility , 54 , 69 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 83 , 85 , 87 , 99. See also “ Elinor and Marianne " short ...

  • Jane Austen
    By Helen Amy

    from the sad tale of the unhappy childhood of Mrs Lloyd, the Austen family friend who lived at Deane Rectory until 1792. The main character is thought to have been based on Mrs Lloyd's mother, who cruelly mistreated her children.

  • Jane Austen: Four Novels
    By Jane Austen

    No library's complete without the classics! This new edition collects some of the most popular works of beloved author Jane Austen.

  • Jane Austen: The Complete Works
    By Jane Austen

    Each of these novels is a love story and a story about marriage--marriage for love, for financial security, for social status. But they are not mere romances.

  • Jane Austen: Reflections of a Reader
    By Nora Bartlett

    Here comes confiding little Harriet Smith, seventeen years old to Emma's twenty, from the parlour of Mrs. Goddard's school, into Emma's world: She was a very pretty girl, and her beauty happened to be of a sort which Emma particularly ...

  • Jane Austen: A Companion
    By Josephine Ross

    ... née Gibson ) , 27–8 , 226 Austen , Mary ( née Lloyd ) see Lloyd , Mary Austen , Philadelphia see Hancock , Philadelphia Austen , Revd George ( JA's father ) , 4 Austen - Knight , Caroline ( JA's niece ) , 39-40 , 149 , 155 Austen ...

  • Jane Austen: An Unrequited Love
    By Andrew Norman

    ... entitled Their Groves O' Sweet Myrtle: Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon Where brightbeaming summers exalt the perfume Far dearer to me yon glen o' green breckan Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom.

  • Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays
    By John Halperin

    Like Scott , Whately begins with a mild disclaimer . Past reviewers used to have to apologize in advance ' for condescending to notice a novel , ' Whately says , but he will not apologize for noticing the ' new style of novel - by which ...

  • Jane Austen
    By Marilyn Butler

    (1968–87)· J. Todd, The Cambridge introduction to Jane Austen (2006)· G. H. Tucker, A goodly heritage: a history of Jane Austen's family (1983)· I. Watt, ed., Jane Austen: a collection of critical essays (1963) 119.

  • Jane Austen
    By Tony Tanner

    Analyzes each of Austen's novels, from Northanger Abbey to Sandition, describes her portrayal of society and education, and discusses her use of language

  • Jane Austen
    By A. Susan Williams

    Jane Austen

  • Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes
    By Jane Austen

    He would gain cheerfulness, and she would learn to be an enthusiast for Scott and Lord Byron, nay, that was probably learnt already, of course they had fallen in love over poetry. The idea of Louisa Musgrove turned into a person of ...

  • Jane Austen
    By Peter J. Leithart

    In this Christian Encounter Series biography, author Peter J. Leithart explores the life of Jane Austen, beloved author of such books as Pride and Prejudice and Emma.

  • Jane Austen: Poems and Favourite Poems
    By Jane Austen, Douglas Brooks-Davies

    All the poems Jane Austen wrote, and many of those she read and valued, and which play a part in her novels.

  • Jane Austen: An Obstinate Heart
    By Valerie Grosvenor Myer

    She had read Henry Fielding's picaresque and outspoken novel Tom Jones, but preferred Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison, which she knew extremely well. She was familiar with Shakespeare and Milton, and in Persuasion Byron's ...

  • Jane Austen: Six Novels and their Methods
    By Michael Williams

    And, if the virtues of Mansfield are to be doubted before, then how much more so when we see what becomes of Tom, Maria or Julia, and how Sir Thomas and Edmund respond. On the rare occasions when Fanny does experience a kind of ...

  • Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Emma & Mansfield Park (3 Books in One Edition)
    By Jane Austen

    It delighted Mrs. Grant to keep them both with her, and Dr. Grant was exceedingly well contented to have it so: a talking pretty young woman like Miss Crawford is always pleasant society to an indolent, stay-at-home man; ...