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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

writer of Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, and Emma

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Criticism about Jane Austen

Health and Wealth and Miss Jane Austen

http://www.starcourse.org/abbey/HWinJA.html

Article discussing the importance placed upon money and health by the characters of Jane Austen's novels.

Contains: Criticism, Commentary

Author: Dom. Nicholas Seymour

Keywords: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, inheritance

 

Jane Austen

http://www.bartleby.com/222/index.html#10

This lengthy analysis of the author's life and works includes sections on her Early tales, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey , Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion.

Contains: Extensive Bio, Criticism, Bibliography

Author: Harold Child

From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XII: English, The Romantic Revival,The Nineteenth Century, I

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Jane Austen and Edward Said: Gender, Culture and Imperialism

http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/v21/v21n4.fr...

Discusses the tendency of scholars to "lift Austen out of her social millieu, gallantly allowing her gorgeous sentences to float free,untainted by the routines of labor that produced them and deaf to the tumult of current events."

Contains: Webliography, Criticism, Commentary

Author: Susan Fraiman

From: Critical Inquiry Volume 21, no. 4 Summer 1995

Keywords: Jane Austen, patriarchy

 

Jane Austen's Clergymen

http://www.starcourse.org/abbey/JACl.html

An article discussing the presentation of clergymen in Jane Austen's novels.

Contains: Commentary, Criticism

Author: Dom. Nicholas Seymour

Keywords: Jane Austen, Anglican Church

 

 
Biographical sites about Jane Austen

Family Secrets

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/n/nokes-austen.html

This first chapter from a biography on Austen discusses the life of her parents before she was born. The New York Times Book Review site requires a free registration for acess to its reviews.

Contains: Extensive Bio,

Author: David Nokes

From: Jane Austen: A Life Chapter 1; Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1997

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Jane "Persuasion" Austen

http://www.incompetech.com/authors/austen/

A brief biography of Jane Austen.

Contains: Sketch

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Jane Austen

http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/austen_j.htm

This extensive biography of Austen comes from the Gale Group's Celebrating Women's History Month web site.

Contains: Extensive Bio, Bibliography

From: DISCovering Biography, Gale, 1997; Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale, 1998.

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Molland's

http://www.mollands.net

An online community of Jane Austen fans help maintain this website devoted to the author. Contains public domain works on and by Austen as well as a list of links to external resources for more information. Also has an online forum.

Contains: Extensive Bio, Full Bio, Criticism, Bibliography, Webliography, Works List, Works Available,

Author: Molland's

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1775

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/tomalin-austen.html

This first chapter from a biography on Austen discusses events surrounding the author's birth. The New York Times Book Review site requires a free registration for acess to its reviews.

Contains: Extensive Bio,

Author: Claire Tomalin

From: Jane Austen: A Life Chapter 1; Alfred A. Knopf

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Other sites about Jane Austen

Austen.com Front Door

http://www.austen.com/

"This site provides a good starting point for people interested in Jane Austen." Includes interesting information about the writing projects Austen undertook as a young girl.

Keywords: austen juvenalia regency england

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Jane Austen Information Page

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html

A comprehensive resource on Jane Austen, with biographical information, links to all of her texts online, and many links for Austen fans.

Contains: Extensive Bio, Timeline, Commentary, Criticism, Bibliography, Webliography, Works List, Works Available

Author: Henry Churchyard

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