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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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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 Jane Austen Encyclopedia
Book by Paul Poplawski; Greenwood, 1998
Subjects: Austen, Jane--1775-1817--Bibliography, Austen, Jane--1775-1817--Chronology, Austen, Jane--1775-1817--Encyclopedias, Novelists, English--19th Century--Biography--Encyclopedias, Women And Literature--England--History--19th Century--Encyclopedias
...brother, James Leigh Perrot (1735-1817), prevents insolvency. March: The Austens financial problems further eased...April: Francis William Austen bom. 1775 5 November: Death of Mr. Hancock in Calcutta. 16 December: Jane Austen born. 1777 Winter: Mrs...ordained as a priest in early 1817.) 1817 7 17 January: Jane Austen begins Sanditon (posthumously titled...College Street, Winchester, where Jane Austen died on 18 July 1817. She had been moved into lodgings...
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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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The Postcolonial Jane Austen
Book by You-Me Park, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Austen, Jane--1775-1817--Criticism And Interpretation, Austen, Jane--1775-1817--Influence, Austen, Jane--1775-1817--Political And Social Views, Colonies In Literature, Love Stories, English--History And Criticism, Oriental Fiction--History And Criticism, Postcolonialism In Literature, Sex Role In Literature
...Austen, Jane, 1775-1817-Influence. 4. Postcolonialism. 5. Colonies in Literature. 6. Sex role in literature. 7. Oriental fiction-History and criticism. I. Park, You-me, 1960- II. Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari. III. Series. PR4037 .A87 2000 823.7-dc21...
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Sleeping with Mr. Collins
Journal article by Ruth Perry; Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, Vol. 22, 2000
Subjects: Austen, Jane--Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1775-1837 (Romantic period)--Criticism and interpretation, Marriage--Portrayals, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation
...from one of Delarivier Manleys fictions, as capable of feeling sexual disgust...There is no reason to believe that Jane Austen knew either one of these books...nineteenth-century heroine. That Jane Austen herself understood both impulses...
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Music, Character, and Social Standing in Jane Austen's Emma
Journal article by Kathryn L. Shanks Libin; Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, Vol. 22, 2000
Subjects: Austen, Jane--Criticism and interpretation, Emma (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1775-1837 (Romantic period)--Criticism and interpretation, Music--Portrayals, Social status--Portrayals, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation
...and to the reader, during dinner at her home, the mysterious arrival of an instrument at the home of the Bates ladies and Jane Fairfax: "Mrs. Cole was telling that she had been calling on Miss Bates, and as soon as she entered the room had been struck...astonishment of both aunt and niece..." (214-15). This unusually detailed description of an ordinary household item, and Austens unique use of its makers name, immediately signifies its key importance in the ensuing drama. What would the name Broadwood...played on Broadwoods pianos; Haydn played and endorsed them when he was in London in the 1790s, and Beethoven owned one from 1817. Broadwood built magnificent, one-of-a-kind instruments, such as a 1796 grand piano designed by Thomas Sheraton with jasperware...
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"'Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Lady B': Talking about Theatre in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park"
Journal article by Judith W. Fisher; Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, Vol. 22, 2000
Subjects: Austen, Jane--Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1775-1837 (Romantic period)--Criticism and interpretation, Ethics--Portrayals, Mansfield Park (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation
...Deirdre Le Faye tells us, "were to become a feature of Steventon rectory life during the next few years" (43). About the Austen familys Christmas festivities of 1787, one of Janes cousins, Phylly Walter, wrote: "My uncles barn is fitting up quite like theatre, all the young folks are to take their part" (qtd. in Le Faye 58). It is not clear in what capacity Jane might have served on these occasions, but she would certainly have been an audience member if not a fully-fledged thespian...visits to London, Jane regularly attended the theatre: Covent Garden, Drury Lane, and even the Lyceum Theatre, which in 1817, six years after Jane had seen The Hypocrite there, the playwright Joanna Baillie said was "struggling with many difficulties...
4.
British Columbia in Jane Austen's Time
Journal article by Jean Barman; Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, Vol. 29, 2007
Subjects: Austen, Jane--History, British Columbia--History, British writers--History
...became so intense that, by the time of Jane Austens death in 1817, the sea otter had been virtually decimated...negotiate on behalf of Britain. In 1795, as Jane Austen was entering her twenties, the two...including the wars besetting Europe. In Jane Austens adulthood, a second economic boom took...
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Estimating Lace and Muslin: Dress and Fashion in Jane Austen and Her World
Journal article by Jeffrey A. Nigro; Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, Vol. 23, 2001
Subjects: Austen, Jane--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, English--Criticism and interpretation, Clothing and dress--Portrayals, Clothing--Portrayals, English literature--Criticism and interpretation, English writers--Criticism and interpretation, Fashion--Portrayals, Lace craft--Analysis, Literary criticism
...fashion that fill her correspondence. Jane Austens lifetime saw some of the most radical...history. At the time of her birth in 1775, it was still permissible for fashionable...By the time of Austens death in 1817, all this would completely change...Victorian era. To call the period of Jane Austens lifetime a "transitional" one in...styles. But certainly, the period 1775-1817 was one of most extraordinary transformation...entire issue remains Penelope Byrde, Jane Austen Fashion: Fashion and Needlework in...
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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...
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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...
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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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Fiction and the Future: Gripes, Gibes, and Conjectures: Science Fiction Helps Us Find Our Place in the World of Tomorrow, Suggest the Contributors to Envisioning the Future
Magazine article by Lane Jennings; The Futurist, Vol. 38, March 2004
Subjects: Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium (Book)
Fiction and the Future: Gripes, Gibes, and Conjectures: Science Fiction Helps Us Find Our Place in the World of Tomorrow, Suggest...by Lane Jennings Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium edited by Marleen S. Barr...
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Fiction Based on Fact: Historical Fiction Newspaper Project Stresses Creativity, Solid Research
Magazine article; Reading Today, Vol. 20, February 2003
Subjects: Historical fiction--Study and teaching, International Reading Association--Achievements and awards, Writing--Study and teaching
Fiction Based on Fact: Historical Fiction Newspaper Project Stresses Creativity, Solid Research. Marianne Rossis "Historical Fiction Newspaper" project makes history come alive for her eighth-grade...
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WIN ... the Best New Fiction by Emerging Writers
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), May 13, 2006
Subjects: Orange Prize for Fiction
WIN ... the Best New Fiction by Emerging Writers. THE Evening...readers the chance to win the best in new fiction shortlisted for the Orange Award for...year as part of the Orange Prize for Fiction, the award celebrates emerging talent...
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THE TRUTH IS IN HERE; CONSUMING PASSIONS Rog Peyton Tells Jo Ind about His All-Consuming Passion for Science Fiction
Newspaper article by Jo Ind; The Birmingham Post (England), March 29, 2000
...about His All-Consuming Passion for Science Fiction. by Jo Ind Science fiction is a term as incomprehensible to many people...press and told them he was selling science fiction, fantasy and horror. The journalist was interested...
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Ronald D. Moore Re-invents Science Fiction in 'Battlestar Galactica'
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, June 26, 2005
Ronald D. Moore Re-invents Science Fiction in Battlestar Galactica. Byline...Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy Horror Films, USA for Best...Battlestar Galactica" is to reinvent science fiction television series. One of his bold moves...
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The Heights of Fiction; Philip Roth's Extraordinary New Novel Alters History to Put Hitler's Friend, Charles Lindbergh, in the White House
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 27, 2004
Subjects: Lindbergh, Charles A., Roth, Philip
The Heights of Fiction; Philip Roths Extraordinary New Novel...overwrought ways that readers stagger between fiction and autobiography, never quite knowing...is now listed in his bibliography as fiction. Go figure. There had to be a point...
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Pulp Fiction
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), March 3, 2005
Pulp Fiction. In 1926, the first copies of science fiction magazine Amazing Stories rolled of the printing presses...magazines such as Startling Stories, Astounding Science Fiction and Unknown Fantasy Fiction. But Hubbard was destined...
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1.
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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