Georgian society in Jane Austen's novels is the ever-present background of her work, the world in which all her characters are set. Entirely situated...
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Emma is a novel written by English author Jane Austen. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield...
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the works of Austen remain a popular source for film makers, who eschew Austen's narrator, rendering a true adaptation impossible. Austen's use of free...
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the Bildungsroman (novel of education). D. D. Devlin in Jane Austen and Education (1975) argued that Austen's novels were all in varying ways Bildungsroman...
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Jane Austen (/ˈɒstɪn, ˈɔːstɪn/ OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly...
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Jane Austen's parents, George (1731–1805), an Anglican rector, and his wife Cassandra (1739–1827), were members of the landed gentry. George was descended...
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The causes of Jane Austen's death, which occurred on July 18, 1817 at the age of 41, following an undetermined illness that lasted about a year, have...
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Mansfield Park (redirect from Mansfield Park (novel))
third published novel by the English author Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton. A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray...
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Northanger Abbey (redirect from Northanger Horrid Novels)
2022. "About Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey 'Horrid Novels'". Valancourt Books. Retrieved 7 September 2014. Austen, Jane. Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey...
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attempted to weave together "what we know about Austen's world from her books and letters," and believed Austen's personal life was the inspiration for Pride...
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"Jane Austen’s Banker Brother: Henry Thomas Austen of Austen & Co., 1801-1816." Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, vol. 20, Jane Austen Society of...
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a cottage in Chawton where she lived for the last years of her life (now Jane Austen's House Museum). He was also High Sheriff of Kent in 1801. Edward...
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Austen (1765 – 1819) was an English clergyman, best known for being the eldest brother of celebrated novelist Jane Austen. His father George Austen's...
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"Jane Austen's Life and Family". (n.d.) The Jane Austen Information Page. Retrieved December 31, 2006. Jane Austen (1810) by Cassandra Austen, National...
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lies the grave of Jane Austen's brother". "Jane Austen's Siblings – Charles John Austen 1779-1852". 9 October 2009. "Captain Henry Austen". Knezevich, Ruth...
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in a nightgown in her bathroom. When Elizabeth disappears, Amanda brushes the incident off as a dream. She explains to her mother that Jane Austen's novel...
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George Wickham (category Literary characters introduced in 1813)
Représentation de l'argent dans les romans de Jane Austen: L'être et l'avoir, [Representation of Money in Jane Austen's Novels : To Be and To Have], Paris, L'Harmattan...
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Jon Hunter Spence (category Jane Austen scholars)
consultant. A Century of Wills from Jane Austen's Family, 1705–1806 (2001) (editor) Becoming Jane Austen (2003 & 2007) Jane Austen's Brother Abroad: The Grand Tour...
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The Jane Austen Season is a British television series of dramas based on the novels by Jane Austen. The season began on ITV at 9:00 p.m. on Sunday 18 March...
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Williams as Jane Austen, with Imogen Poots, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Bonneville, Adrian Edmondson and Jack Huston. It premiered on 21 August 2007 on BBC 1 in the United...
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Pride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy (category Films set in Utah)
Faller, and Katherine Swigert, is an adaptation of Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Provo, Utah. The film stars Kam Heskin...
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Love & Friendship (category Films based on works by Jane Austen)
comedy film written and directed by Whit Stillman. Based on Jane Austen's epistolary novel Lady Susan, written c. 1794, the film stars Kate Beckinsale...
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Thomas Langlois Lefroy (category Jane Austen)
Smith discuss a poem. Austen may have hidden the word TOLMEYFOR—an anagram of TOM LEFROY—in the poem. Upon learning of Jane Austen's death (18 July 1817)...
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Juliet McMaster (category Jane Austen scholars)
books such as Jane Austen’s Achievement and Jane Austen on Love. The first of these novels, Jane Austen’s Achievement, which she edited in 1976, was a collection...
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William Henry Helm (redirect from Jane Austen and Her Country-House Comedy)
this theory. In the meagre annals of Jane Austen's career he diligently seeks for the raw material of her novels, and from the novels in turn deduces...
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Historical romance (category Historical novels subgenres)
Heyer's Regency novels were inspired by Jane Austen's novels of the late 18th and early 19th century. Because Heyer's writing was set in the midst of events...
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periods are simply referred to as Georgian. Georgian society and its preoccupations were well portrayed in the novels of writers such as Daniel Defoe,...
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Regency era (category 1810s in the United Kingdom)
March 2024. Tapley, Jane. Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine, vol. 17, p. 23. Morgan, Marjorie (1994). Manners, Morals, and Class in England, 1774–1859...
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Queen (Ebury Press, 2015, ISBN 9781785031243) Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen (Folio Society, 2017, OCLC 1107990187) Fabulously Feisty Queens, by Valerie Wilding...
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English literature (redirect from Literature in English)
Burney's novels "were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen". The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century...
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