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by Elizabeth Jenkins. 412 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Elizabeth Jenkins

Publisher:

   Pellegrini & Cudahy

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1949
Subjects:   Fiction, Austen, Jane,--1775-1817
Table of contents
Jane Austen iii
Acknowledgments v
1 3
2 17
3 25
4 37
5 45
6 63
7 86
8 106
9 120
10 133
11 145
12 162
13 177
14 205
15 239
16 278
17 304
18 333
19 358
20 370
21 389
22 396
Bibliography 402
Index 403
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books on: (Fiction) OR (Austen Jane 1775 1817)  - 40062 results

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Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time
Book by Mary Waldron; Cambridge University Press, 1999
Subjects: Austen, Jane--1775-1817--Aesthetics, Austen, Jane--1775-1817--Books And Reading, Austen, Jane--1775-1817--Contemporaries, Austen, Jane--1775-1817--Criticism And Interpretation, English Fiction--18th Century--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, English Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Fiction--Technique, Love Stories, English--History And Criticism, Women And Literature--England--History--19th Century
JANE AUSTEN AND THE FICTION OF HER TIME This book presents Jane...a good deal of authority by members of Austens family. The Biographical Notice of the...Northanger Abbey and Persuasion in 1817, established the picture of the Christian authoress, gentle Aunt Jane, which became so comfortingly familiar...
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A Memoir of Jane Austen
Book by James Edward Austen-Leigh, R. W. Chapman; Richard Bentley and Son, 1871
Subjects: Austen, Jane--1775-1817, Fiction
...the task from a conviction that, however little I may have to tell, no one else is left who could tell so much of her. Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, at the Parsonage House of Steventon in Hampshire. Her father, the Rev. George Austen, was of a family long established...
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A Companion to Jane Austen Studies
Book by Robert Thomas Lambdin, Laura Cooner Lambdin; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: Austen, Jane--1775-1817--Bibliography, Austen, Jane--1775-1817--Criticism And Interpretation--History
...cultures. Johnson begins with the fictional cult created by Kiplings story...published shape. Just as hypertext fiction allows a reader- browser to create...Armstrong Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel...
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Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Work, Her Family, and Her Critics
Book by R. Brimley Johnson; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1930
Subjects: Austen, Jane--1775-1817, Fiction
...comparatively obsolete." In March 1817 Jane writes, " Miss Catherine is put on...youth in the whole story which Jane Austen never quite captured again or elsewhere...more or less assumed, that it was Jane Austens habit to write continuously, starting...development. We are told that the tales in Jane Austens "copy books had amounted to a considerable...
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Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage - Vol. 1
Book by B. C.Southam; Routledge, 1995
Subjects: Austen, Jane--1775-1817--Criticism And Interpretation, Women And Literature--England--History--19th Century
...Northanger Abbey and Persuasion 1817...15 HENRY CRABB ROBINSON on Jane Austen 1819, 1822, 1839, 1842 85...instructive. Her publishers knew that Jane Austen was no best-seller like Scott, whose Rob Roy 1817 , for example, sold 10,000 in a fortnight...a set of four volumes in December 1817, five months after Jane Austens death. Her favourite brother, Henry...
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A Consideration of Times and Seasons: Two Jane Austen Adaptations
Journal article by Laura Caroll; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 31, 2003
Subjects: Austen, Jane (1775-1817), Motion picture criticism, Motion pictures, Novels
...Consideration of Times and Seasons: Two Jane Austen Adaptations by Laura Caroll In...strangely bankable English novelist Jane Austen.1 Metropolitans (Whit Stillman) dalliance...novel, Lionel Trilling (a link between Jane Austen and New York upon which Stillman capitalizes...
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Persuasion and Cinematic Approaches to Jane Austen
Journal article by Sidney Gottlieb; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 30, 2002
Subjects: Austen, Jane (1775-1817), Literary criticism, Motion pictures
...Persuasion and Cinematic Approaches to Jane Austen by Sidney Gottlieb Critics have...understanding of recent cinematic adaptations of Jane Austen by emphasizing primarily the "literary...rightly calls these "new readings of Jane Austen" (427), only a handful make as much...
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Jane Austen Never Married
Journal article by Mira Schor; Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34, 2006
Subjects: Austen, Jane (1775-1817), Emotions, Marriage, Painting, Writers
Jane Austen Never Married by Mira Schor These paintings, at least...marrying a Mr. Darcy or even Rochester, and Ive led the life of Jane Austen. To this day the Miss Jane Austens of the world are best loved when they are safely dead, for...
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Persuading the Navy Home: Austen and Married Women's Professional Property
Journal article by Monica F. Cohen; Novel, Vol. 29, 1996
Subjects: Austen, Jane (1775-1817), Literary criticism, Novels
...literary merging of the sea and the home in Jane Austens Persuasion. Persuasion provides a starting...generally seen by critics as exemplifying Austens break from Augustan literary conventions...the propriety that conventionally marks Austens upwardly mobile heroines is indeed the...
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The Politics of Silence: Mansfield Park and the Amelioration of Slavery
Journal article by George E. Boulukos; Novel, Vol. 39, 2006
Subjects: Austen, Jane (1775-1817), Colonialism, Human trafficking, Literary criticism, Novels
...her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in Jane Austens Mansfield Park has come to dominate...century literary critic - with Jane Austens situation as a Romantic-era novelist. The problem is that for Jane Austen, there was no such silence to break...
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1.
Jane Austen Changes Her Mind
Magazine article by Christopher Clausen; American Scholar, Vol. 68, Spring 1999
Subjects: Austen, Jane--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, English--Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1775-1837 (Romantic period)--Criticism and interpretation, English writers--Criticism and interpretation, Persuasion (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Women novelists--Criticism and interpretation
...are nothing new to English social history or to Austens fiction. Eventually, Sir Walter will reassume Kellynch, and yield...
2.
Jane Austen: A New Look at a Perennial Favorite
Magazine article by Fred Stern; World and I, Vol. 23, March 2008
Subjects: Austen, Jane--Appreciation, Austen, Jane--Portrayals, Austen, Jane--Works, Novelists--Appreciation, Novelists--Portrayals, Novelists--Works
...other fabrics from the Far East and the West Indies provided a springboard to greater prosperity. Who was Jane Austen? Jane Austen (1775-1817) was the seventh of eight children born to a country parson and his wife in a small Hampshire village. Little of her early...
3.
A Thoroughly Modern Austen
Magazine article; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 23, Autumn 1999
Subjects: Austen, Jane--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Novelists--Works, Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)--Evaluation, Success--Measurement
...century is an author of the early 19th: Jane Austen (1775-1817). All but one of her six novels have...screens in recent years. Something about Austens well-regulated bucolic romances, in...been remarkable consensus that all of Austens novels are consistent in whatever social...
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"Our History Is Our Strength" - Celebrating the Varied Roles and Accomplishments of Women through Historical Fiction and Biography
Magazine article by Armin R. Schulz; Social Studies Review, Vol. 46, Fall 2006
Subjects: Books, Musical theater, Political activism, Roles
...VIII. In addition to the above-mentioned titles, there are other exciting, highly informative selections of historical fiction that provide readers with a realistic backdrop of a historical era, and a sense of the people who lived and interacted...
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Stranger Than Fiction
Magazine article by Taki Theodoracopulos; American Conservative, Vol. 5, December 18, 2006
Subjects: Black athletes, Public officials, Simpson, O J, Social conditions & trends, Social criticism & satire
Stranger Than Fiction by Taki Theodoracopulos Last year...Wolfowitz is trying his hand at science fiction. In his novel, he describes an imaginary...Madeleine Albright, too, can write fiction, and in her novel she creates a distinguished...
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Fang Fiction
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 1, 2008
Fang Fiction. Before Ellen Schreiber took pen to...fancies to inspire us to write exciting fang fiction. STUDENTS AND CAMPUSES BULLETIN: Can you...think they make romantic characters in fiction? ELLEN SCHREIBER: I think they are romantic...
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HOT BETWEEN THE COVERS; Hazel Cushion Is on a Mission to Publish Quality Erotic Fiction for Women, and When She Says Quality She Means Sex and the City Sassy Not All S&M and Whiplash. CATHERINE JONES Caught Up with the 47-Year-Old Mum-of-Three to Talk Sex, Satisfaction And. Spanking!
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), August 3, 2008
...on a Mission to Publish Quality Erotic Fiction for Women, and When She Says Quality She...a gap in the market for quality erotic fiction for women. Our best-selling title is Sex...research showed women like quality erotic fiction and men like pictures. Women want fiction...
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Truth or 'Fiction': Play Dives into Which Is Which
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), November 12, 2009
Truth or Fiction: Play Dives into Which Is Which. Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard Fiction Lord Leebrick Theatre Friday through Dec. 5 In Steven Dietzs "Fiction," which opens Friday at Lord Leebrick Theatre, a couple of successful novelists...
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Pounds 1m Book Deal - That's Not Science Fiction! Former Space Agency Worker Reynolds Commits to 10 Books
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), June 24, 2009
Subjects: Reynolds, Alastair--Criticism and interpretation
...Pounds 1m Book Deal - Thats Not Science Fiction! Former Space Agency Worker Reynolds Commits...Books. Byline: Ben Glaze A SCIENCE fiction writer has spoken of his joy at landing...penning up to two million words of science fiction over the next decade. He said: "Its an...
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Get Onboard for the Female Fiction Prize; RESULT!
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 15, 2009
Get Onboard for the Female Fiction Prize; RESULT! Byline: DEREK McGOVERN; JOHN SHAW IVE never rated women novelists and I say that as someone who has all of Jane Austens books in my library, as well as some to read. Men dont want to read what...
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Austen, Jane
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AUSTEN, JANE o st n, 1775 1817, English novelist. The daughter of a clergyman, she spent the...authorship, she received little public recognition in her lifetime. Jane Austens novels are comedies of manners that depict the self-contained...
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Science Fiction
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SCIENCE FICTION literary genre in which a background...integral part of the story. Although science fiction is a form of fantastic literature, many...invasions from outer space. Science fiction is generally considered to have had its...
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Teleportation , in Science Fiction
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TELEPORTATION , in science fiction in science fiction, the process of instantaneously transporting a person or an object between two points, usually by disappearing from one place and reappearing at a second place as a perfect copy by means...
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Fiction
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FICTION see novel ; short story . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Novel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...psychological reality explored by Sterne would resurface as a fictional preoccupation early in the 20th cent. The Nineteenth...1818) explores a tale of horror. Later, Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre (1847) and Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights (1847...
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