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| | Jane Austen Biography |
 | | Jane Austen was helped by her father to select from his five-hundred-volume library, and there were, of course, books from circulating libraries. | | | Austen read her niece Anna Austen's manuscript novel "Which Is the Heroine?" and offered detailed comments in letters of May or June, 10 August, 9 and 28 September, and December 1814. | | | As the Austens would have known well, the "Richardsonian revolution" in the novel was developed from the 1760s to the 1780s by women writers, especially Frances Burney, whose Evelina (1778) and Cecilia (1782) represent the novelistic version of the middle-class discourse of merit through a heroine rather than a hero. |
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http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/austenbio.html
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| | Jane Austen - Biography and Works |
| | Jane Austen is the English novelist generally credited with first giving the novel its modern character through her treatment of the details of everyday life in provincial English middle-class society. | | | Austen always published her books anonymously, this being agreeable to her retiring nature. | | | Austen is considered an English classic and one of the greatest authors ever. |
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http://www.online-literature.com/austen
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| | Austen, Jane - Biography and Online Books |
| | Austen had completed the early version of the story in 1797 under the title "First Impressions". | | | James Edward Austen-Leigh, her nephew, wanted to create another kind of legend around her and claimed that "of events her life was singularly barren: few changes and no great crises ever broke the smooth current of its course... | | | There was in her nothing eccentric or angular; no ruggedness of temper; no singularity of manner..." Austen's sister Cassandra never married. |
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http://www.literaturepost.com/authors/Austen.html
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| | JANE AUSTEN Bibliography |
| | Jane Austen and Time A collection of writings on Jane Austen posted by professor Ellen Moody, which includes her article "A Calendar For Sense and Sensibility," originally published in Philological Quarterly, 79 (Fall 2000), and another detailed study of the calendars in all Austen's novels. | | | Jane Austen section of "Women in the Literary Marketplace," an online exhibit from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell Univ. that contains short entries on several Victorian women authors and their typical themes, information about the publishing context, and some images of first editions. | | | A Note on a Jane Austen Connection with the Massachusetts Historical Society: Justice Story, Admiral Wormeley, and Admiral Francis Austen by Farnell Parsons. |
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http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/AUSTEN.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Emma: Books: Jane Austen |
| | Like all of her novels, Jane Austen's EMMA is essentially a comedy of manners, a work in which the characters move inside a highly restrictive code of conduct and must walk a fine line between the socially acceptable and unacceptable if they are to survive, much less reach their goals. | | | Even so, Austen is writing very close to the peak of her powers here, and her amazing talent for observation, subtle irony, and flashing wit endow EMMA with tremendous charm and interest. | | | Knightley is just about the only person willing to speak up to Emma and point out her faults and the error of her matchmaking ways, but as the reader soon learns he does this only because he truly loves her and cares about the kind of woman she will become. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553212737?v=glance
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| | Jane Austen Notes |
| | Jane Austen's other works include two unfinished novels, "The Watsons" and "Sanditon", three volumes of stories written in her youth, her verses, and the three prayers mentioned below. | | | And the title of "Emma" is the first sentence of the story, and could not be changed without losing part of the beauty of her start. | | | Some say that Jane Austen would have called this "The Eliots". |
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http://www.mirror.org/ken.roberts/jane.austen.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Jane Austen: A Life: Books |
| | The deduction that Claire Tomalin makes from this evidence is that Jane Austen must have protected and cared for her manuscripts like a mother with newborn babies. | | | This book is still an intriguing read and Tomalin paints a picture of the times with as much accuracy as Jane and her contemporaries do in their novels. | | | Don't assume from all this that the book is merely an exhaustive effort of plodding detection. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140296905
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| | Singular "their" in Jane Austen and elsewhere: Anti-pedantry page |
| | Singular "their" etc., was an accepted part of the English language before the 18th-century grammarians started making arbitrary judgements as to what is "good English" and "bad English", based on a kind of pseudo-"logic" deduced from the Latin language, that has nothing whatever to do with English. | | | Jane Austen and other famous authors violate what everyone learned in their English class | | | While your high-school English teacher may have told you not to use this construction, it actually dates back to at least the 14th century, and was used by the following authors (among others) in addition to Jane Austen: Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, the King James Bible, |
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http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/austheir.html
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| | Jane Austen Info Page |
| | The Austen family coat of arms (Heraldic "blazon" or description: "Or, a chevron gules between three lions' gambs erect, erased sable armed of the second. | | | Her novels are highly prized not only for their light irony, humor, and depiction of contemporary English country life, but also for their underlying serious qualities. | | | E-texts of selected light verse by Jane Austen. |
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http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html
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| | Jane "Persuasion" Austen |
| | Her novels were being published anonymously, and the whole country was rife with speculation as to who this author could be. | | | So it was probaly out of desparation that she sent off one of her manuscripts to a publisher. | | | I know, you think you've never heard of this one. |
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http://incompetech.com/authors/austen
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| | Jane Austen Life Stories, Books, & Links |
| | FIND BOOKS BY JANE AUSTEN AT Powell's Books | | | Jane Austen - Life Stories, Books, and Links | | | SELECTED BOOKS ABOUT (or related to) THIS AUTHOR |
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http://todayinliterature.com/biography/jane.austen.asp
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| | The Republic of Pemberley |
| | The Library - Discussions of non-Jane Austen books. | | | Literary Companion - Barbara's Literary allusions in Austen and others. | | | Jane Austen's Life & Times - The era as it relates to Jane Austen's work. |
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| | JASNA Home Page |
| | Yet there are pleasures in Austen's novels, sometimes even conflicting pleasures, that readers in all parts of the world understand: her verbal agility, sparkling humor, comforting charm, biting wit, and satirical eye. | | | No one who had ever read those words around the time Jane Austen wrote them (1798/9-1803), would have supposed their author born to be the novelist whose works most fully and famously embody such high claims for the novel form. | | | That Austen's work offers all this and more to generations of readers underscores their richness. |
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http://www.jasna.org
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books Authors Austen, Jane |
| | In the debate on sweaty versus fragrant Austen adaptations, says Natasha Walter, we should remember they are fairy tales. | | | George Eliot and Henry James share something of the Austen sensibility. | | | Zoë Heller celebrates the teenage Austen, whose stories and sketches provide an illuminating glimpse of the humour, morality and social comment she would later develop in her novels. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,5917,-12,00.html
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| | Criticism and Biographies of Jane Austen |
| | Jane Austen--from an edition of Sense and Sensibility, preface to the whole series. | | | Highlights of this section include a turn of the century Encyclopedia Britannica article and an excerpt from an English Textbook from the same era. | | | Also included are the complete texts of two books, Jane Austen by O. Firkins and Jane Austen and Her Times by G. Mitton. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~lfdean/austen/critbio
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| | Jane Austen Quotes - The Quotations Page |
| | It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. | | | - Read the works of Jane Austen online at The Literature Page |
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http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Jane_Austen
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| | IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection |
| | A n excerpt from 'The Character of Literature from Blake to Byron', in The New Pelican Guide to English Literature 5. | | | The paper's author argues that these authors have each "found an invaluable use for flat characters, one that could not have been accomplished without them. | | | This first chapter from a biography on Austen discusses the life of her parents before she was born. |
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http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=aus-35
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| | Jane Austen |
| | For those of you who don't know who this is, she is one of the greatest in the rich history of English literature. | | | -->This site is dedicated to Jane Austen and her literature. | | | This website was last updated March 13, 2006 |
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http://www.jane-austen.info
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| | EESE Resources: Jane Austen |
| | Brown, Edith, and Francis Brown: The Watsons: By Jane Austen - Completed in Accordance with Her Intentions by Edith and Francis Brown (New York: Matthews and Marrot, 1928) | | | 9.10 LeFaye, Deirdre: "Sanditon: Jane Austen's Manuscript and Her Niece's Continuation," The Review of English Studies, 38, 1987, pp. | | | 5.3 Brown, Edith, and Francis Brown: The Watsons: By Jane Austen - Completed in Accordance with her Intentions by Edith and Francis Brown (New York: Matthews and Marrot, 1928) |
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http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/breuer/biblio.html
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| | Jane Austen |
| | Jane Austen has the reputation of only writing about young women whose only interest in life was marriage and is often derided because of it. | | | She wrote about the relationships between men and women, the problems of women in her day and... | | | “Jane Austen’s masterpiece is a perfectly pitched satire on the war between the sexes and the mores of the day. |
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http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/jane_austen
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| | Jane Austen Centre |
| | We have an attractive shop which offers an unrivalled selection of Jane Austen related books, videos, CD's, cassettes, cards, stationery, lace and needlepoint. | | | The city is still very much as Jane Austen knew it, preserving in its streets, public buildings and townscapes the elegant well-ordered world that she portrays so brilliantly in her novels. | | | The Jane Austen Centre is a new permanent exhibition which tells the story of Jane's Bath experience - the effect that living here had on her and her writing. |
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http://www.janeausten.co.uk/centre
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| | Links To Jane Austen On The Web |
| | They do collective reads of Austen's novels as well as discuss Austen, themes in her books, and much more. | | | This site has a very brief biography of Austen, essays on the literary world in which Austen lived, brief synopses of the books, and individual pages for each of her works with essays on the literary context of the books. | | | On-line texts of Jane Austen's novels as well as her minor works, criticism of her work, and other relative stuff. |
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| | Jane Austen (Japan) |
| | You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing. | | | Jane Austen's House - The house where she revised & wrote her famous novels including Pride & Prejudice. | | | A Hyper-Concordance to the Works of Jane Austen |
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| | Jane Austen and Laurence Sterne |
| | Both authors display great wit and honesty in their depiction of characters. | | | Another indication that Jane Austen was familiar with Sterne's work comes from a congratulatory note sent to Jane Austen by her brother James Austen, after the publication of "Sense and Sensibility": | | | Elizabeth's Jenkins' biography of Jane Austen has some excellent comments upon landscaping and upon the "starling affair" -- see chapters 6 and 4 respectively. |
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http://www.mirror.org/ken.roberts/austen.sterne.html
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| | Jane Austen (I) |
| | Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980) (libretto Sir Charles Grandison) (text Sir Charles Grandison, or The Happy Man) | | | Find where Jane Austen is credited alongside another name | | | Jane Austen was born on December 16th, 1775 to the local rector, Rev.... |
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| | Great Books Index - Jane Austen |
| | -- Link to a bulletin board for discussion of Jane Austen's writing. | | | -- A few notes of interest, and three prayers by Jane Austen. | | | -- A six page guide with photographs, describing the city of Bath as Jane Austen knew it. |
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http://books.mirror.org/gb.austen.html
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| | BBC - History - Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) |
| | The great strength of her novels is the social observations they contain: Austen employed a strong sense of irony in her critique of aristocratic disaffection and the pretensions of the nouveau riche. | | | Jane Austen famously stated that 'three or four families in a country village is the thing to work on,' and she remained steadfast in applying this trustworthy formula. | | | She had the support of her brother Henry who helped negotiate with a publisher and the first novel, Sense and Sensibility, appeared in 1811. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/austen_jane.shtml
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| | Austen.com Front Door |
| | On the Works of Jane Austen page, there are links to each of her six novels, as well as much of her Juvenilia, and some of her letters. | | | This site provides a good starting point for people interested in Jane Austen. | | | Off-Line Jane Austen Resources gives some links to societies, books, and tourist sites which exist in the real world. |
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http://www.austen.com
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| | Books by Jane Austen Free to Read Online |
| | Chapter indexed HTML of novels and other books by Jane Austen | | | All of the Jane Austen books below are available in chapter-indexed versions free to read online on this site. | | | Use the links in the menu on the left to navigate, and hit the link at the bottom of the page to continue after each chapter. |
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| | Jane Austen E-texts, Etc. |
| | Welcome to Jane Austen E-texts, etc, a collection of resources of interest to both the devoted and the closet Janeite. | | | If you're looking for the perfect gift for a Janeite, a hard to find book about Austen, or one of her books in a hard-copy, look no further than the Jane Austen E-texts, Etc. Bookstore, the proceeds from which will go to maintaining and improving this site! | | | Every year." However there is much more written in Jane's hand than simply her six full length novels. |
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| | The Bath Jane Austen Festival |
| | For details of this and other events as they are confirmed please keep an eye on our News page. | | | There will be a happy mix of some favourites returning by overwhelming popular request and some thrilling brand new ventures. | | | As ever, we shall try to present something for everyone, a veritable feast of delights for all Jane Austen and Regency fans. |
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| | "Jane Austen Society" |
| | This page will be up and running soon, but it is easier to direct you here. | | | Please CLICK to take you to the present Jane Austen Society details. |
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| | Jane Austen Evening |
| | The Jane Austen Evening is a mixture of live music, food, authentic dance, historical discussion, gaming and tea. | | | The world of Jane Austen will be brought to life on Saturday, January 24th, at the Pasadena Masonic Hall. | | | If you want to hear about history and vintage dance events in Southern California, type your email here |
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| | Jane Austen |
| | Choose a book from this list or choose another author from the Electronic Library: | | | Read some great literature free on Classic Bookshelf. | | | Site Map > Electronic Library > Jane Austen |
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http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/Austen
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| | Jane Austen Society of Australia (JASA) |
| | Jane Austen-related items for sale — great gift items, or indulge yourself! | | | Your jump-start to other Austen sites on the Web. | | | The Jane Austen Society of Australia Inc. (JASA) |
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http://www.jasa.net.au
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| | Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998) |
| | I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it | | | Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Jane Austen's Mafia! |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120741
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