Many young women reading Austen in her own lifetime would have become governesses, teaching the children of the rich. |
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He doesn't put Austen on a pedestal and he doesn't make a film that is pretty as a picture but lacking in any sense of vitality. |
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But Fielding, as astute an observer of social class as Austen, was actually writing satire. |
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In contrast Austen portrays central characters who have mistaken first impressions about others. |
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The study's argument is shaped diachronically, early versus late Austen, but the contrast is not mechanically developmental. |
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The best illustrated edition of Jane Austen uses contemporary fashion plates, engravings of carriages, town scenes and so on. |
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One of the things he does when he's writing home is to quote Jane Austen a good deal to his sisters. |
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Ang Lee managed to move with extraordinary adeptness from straight Taiwanese projects to Jane Austen to the American Civil War. |
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Usually you will find me with my head in a book muttering at the unreality and anachronism in some flouncy, Austen thing. |
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In 1853, the archaeologist Austen Henry Layard and his team were excavating the palace library of the ancient Assyrian capital Nineveh. |
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The antinomian Blake does, however, have at least one similarity with the oppositional Austen. |
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Austen emphasizes the attractiveness of wealth by making Mary Crawford the first of her rich women to be a fully rounded and appealing character. |
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The venerable Sir Walter Scott, who self-consciously wrote romances, criticized Jane Austen for not being romantic enough. |
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I capitalize the word because Miller, in speaking of Jane Austen, does so, calling her the epitome of Style or Austen Style or Absolute Style. |
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She is a riveting Anne Boleyn in prison and a very funny 15-year-old Jane Austen as she pens her own gleefully biased English history. |
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Mr. Woodhouse is the mildest of men, yet being a member of the Austen world, he is precise in his mildness. |
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The influential standard English of Johnson and Austen was also produced by and productive of emerging constructs of nation and empire. |
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As Jane Austen tells it, it is a conflict of battleaxe versus rapier with the old battleaxe comprehensively vanquished. |
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Being a prim and proper spinster, Jane Austen did not use the family scandal in any of her novels. |
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A few miles up the track lies Mt Austen, where the Japanese defended their most important command post with suicidal banzai counter-attacks. |
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Jane Austen and William Shakespeare are the two that come to mind immediately, as their works have been made into mostly excellent films. |
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Even Jane Austen contributed to militarization by glorifying being a naval captain's wife in Persuasion. |
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But Austen stayed at home in the vicarage, and modern theorists have found it easy to project their own ideologies onto her seemingly blank slate. |
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Austen understands profoundly that manners are a kind of morals. |
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That is, Austen invited an intense identification with her heroines while undermining the reader's ability to do so through the irony inherent in free indirect speech. |
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In Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen defends the novel against critics who dismiss it as frivolous and feminine. |
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One was for prominent Bollywood directors, the other was for the Jane Austen society who turned up to the screening in Bath dressed in bonnets and top hats. |
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He freely modernizes punctuation, which is fine, but is generous in the use of em dashes, so that in his letters he sounds like a breathless Jane Austen heroine. |
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Rozema's adaptation uses the novel as source material, but also incorporates biographical information about Austen herself and excerpts from her adolescent writing. |
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Diego, who blasts himself out a cannon, is one the exciting acts at the Cottle and Austen Circus which has set up its big top in Queens Park, Bolton. |
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Austen does no better than the lexicographers at delineating a set that comprises all but only novels. |
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Austen was a mathematician of social interaction, and her novels are impossibly, preposterously good. |
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Biographer Paula Byrne, author of The Real Jane Austen, celebrates the bicentennial of the beloved novel. |
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After 18 months in Porto, she met Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes in a bar and found they shared an interest in Jane Austen. |
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Rowling has described Jane Austen as her favourite author, calling Emma her favourite book in O, The Oprah Magazine. |
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His works have also been compared to Salman Rushdie, Jane Austen, and Henry James, though Ishiguro himself rejects these comparisons. |
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From 1852 until 1868 the seat was held by Henry Austen Bruce whose main industrial interests lay in the Aberdare valley. |
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The county is famed as home of writers Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, as well as the birthplace of engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. |
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Austen lived most of her life in Hampshire, where her father was rector of Steventon, Hampshire, and wrote all of her novels in the county. |
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In 1802, the Reverend Harris Bigg Wither of the Church of England proposed marriage to Austen, which she declined. |
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Austen does not mention the Slave Trade Act 1807, which abolished the slave trade, though not slavery itself, in the British Empire. |
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And everything we know about Jane Austen and her values is at odds with the cruelty of slavery. |
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Said argued that Austen embraced and promoted this spatial understanding of the world in Mansfield Park. |
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Austen was likely referring to flogging or spanking, then common naval punishments, known as le vice Anglais. |
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He saw Austen Chamberlain, Lord Curzon and Lord Robert Cecil on Thursday 30 November. |
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Austen creates her characters with fully developed personalities and unique voices. |
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Austen is known to use irony throughout the novel especially from viewpoint of the character of Elizabeth Bennet. |
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Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist in the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. |
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Brownstein further states that Austen has it both ways in depicting Elizabeth as she uses much irony. |
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Jane Austen, the secondborn daughter in a family of five boys and two girls, was very close to her sister older Cassandra. |
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Concern arose that academics were taking over Austen criticism and that it was becoming increasingly esoteric, a debate that has continued since. |
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The South Downs have been home to several writers including Jane Austen who lived at Chawton on the edge of the Downs in Hampshire. |
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Sir Francis Austen, brother of Jane Austen, briefly lived in the area after graduating from Portsmouth Naval Academy. |
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Austen has inspired a large number of critical essays and literary anthologies. |
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During her lifetime Austen wrote approximately 3,000 letters but only about 160 survive. |
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From 1773 until 1796, George Austen supplemented this income by farming and by teaching three or four boys at a time, who boarded at his home. |
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Austen apparently had unfettered access both to her father's library and that of a family friend, Warren Hastings. |
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Beginning at age 11, perhaps earlier, Austen wrote poems and stories for her own and her family's amusement. |
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Whenever she made that decision, beginning in about 1793, Austen began to write longer, more sophisticated works. |
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Between 1793 and 1795 Austen wrote Lady Susan, a short epistolary novel, usually described as her most ambitious and sophisticated early work. |
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However, it is clear that Austen was genuinely attracted to Lefroy and subsequently none of her other suitors ever quite measured up to him. |
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If Tom Lefroy later visited Hampshire, he was carefully kept away from the Austens, and Jane Austen never saw him again. |
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In December 1800 George Austen unexpectedly announced his decision to retire from the ministry, leave Steventon, and move the family to Bath. |
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However, Austen had known him since both were young and the marriage offered many practical advantages to Austen and her family. |
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By the next morning, Austen realised she had made a mistake and withdrew her acceptance. |
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No contemporary letters or diaries describe how Austen felt about this proposal. |
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In 1804, while living in Bath, Austen started but did not complete her novel, The Watsons. |
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Edward, James, Henry, and Francis Austen pledged to make annual contributions to support their mother and sisters. |
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In 1806 the family moved to Southampton, where they shared a house with Frank Austen and his new wife. |
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During her time at Chawton, Jane Austen published four generally well received novels. |
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Unknown to Austen, her novels were translated into French and published in cheaply produced, pirated editions in France. |
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Austen learned that the Prince Regent admired her novels and kept a set at each of his residences. |
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Though Austen disliked the Prince Regent, she could scarcely refuse the request. |
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While Murray prepared Emma for publication, Austen began The Elliots, later published as Persuasion. |
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In addition, shortly after the publication of Emma, Henry Austen repurchased the copyright for Susan from Crosby. |
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Austen was forced to postpone publishing either of these completed novels by family financial troubles. |
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After Austen's death, Cassandra, Henry Austen and Murray arranged for the publication of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey as a set. |
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Henry Austen contributed a Biographical Note which for the first time identified his sister as the author of the novels. |
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Austen had many admiring readers in the 19th century who considered themselves part of a literary elite. |
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Around the start of the 20th century, members of the literary elite reacted against the popularisation of Austen. |
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With the publication in 1939 of Mary Lascelles's Jane Austen and Her Art, the academic study of Austen took hold. |
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The conservative Koppel noted several feminist authors such as Claudia Johnson and Mollie Sandock were claiming Austen for their own cause. |
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It is said that Kipling helped assuage his grief over his son's death by reading the novels of Jane Austen aloud to his wife and daughter. |
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The Chapterhouse Theatre Company brings its Garden Theatre Tour to Liverpool with a performance of Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice. |
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What can the works of John Steinbeck, William Shakespeare, and Jane Austen tell us about human biology and evolution? |
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Darcy would be no better able to find Elizabeth in a neoclassicist portrait gallery than could Austen. |
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Francis and Charles Austen are both the dedicatees of two items, while James, Edward, and Henry receive one each. |
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Austen does not use the words pathognomy or physiognomy in any of her published works. |
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Additionally, even though Eleanor is a target of his drollness, Austen makes it clear how much Henry actually values his sister. |
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But there were complications after the birth of Austen in 1863 and Harriet died of puerperal fever soon after. |
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And Austen also seems to anticipate the effects of a Flaubertian Dictionary of Received Ideas here, preparing us for fatuities to follow. |
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Austen's sister Cassandra Austen wanted the novel to end with Price marrying Crawford, and this dispute is one of the few known between the sisters. |
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In November 1797, George Austen wrote to Thomas Cadell, an established publisher in London, to ask if he would consider publishing First Impressions. |
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Marriage was impractical, as both Lefroy and Austen must have known. |
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Hampshire has literary connections, being the birthplace of authors including Jane Austen, and Charles Dickens, and the residence of others, such as Charles Kingsley. |
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Halperin cautioned that Austen often satirised popular sentimental romantic fiction in her letters, and some of the statements about Lefroy may have been ironic. |
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Baldwin and many of the more progressive members, like Austen Chamberlain, of the Conservative Party, and those who fundamentally opposed Lloyd George split. |
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I love the density and complexity of Jane Austen and George Eliot. |
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The continuing disconnection between the popular appreciation of Austen, particularly by modern Janeites, and the academic appreciation of Austen has widened considerably. |
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Both uncle Frank and uncle Stephen Austen had made it a point of principle to be rigorously unsentimental in the discharge of their avuncular obligations. |
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Rather than delving too deeply into the psyche of her characters, Austen enjoys them and imbues them with humour, according to critic John Bayley. |
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Sheryl Craig has published in Persuasions, The Explicator, Jane Austen's Regency World, and on the websites of the Jane Austen Centre and Chawton House Library. |
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According to Janet Todd, the model for the title character may have been Eliza de Feuillide, who inspired Austen with stories of her glamorous life and various adventures. |
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Austen was feeling unwell by early 1816, but ignored the warning signs. |
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Unlike virtually all academic readers of Austen since the 1950s, Janeites in foxholes do not think Austen's novels are about courtship and marriage. |
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Henry Austen's bank failed in March 1816, depriving him of all of his assets, leaving him deeply in debt and losing Edward, James, and Frank Austen large sums. |
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Austen disapproved of the Prince Regent on the account of his womanising, gambling, drinking, spendthrift ways and generally disreputable behaviour. |
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With these resources, Austen could provide her parents a comfortable old age, give Cassandra a permanent home and, perhaps, assist her brothers in their careers. |
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It is written in the style of Austen after extensive research into the period and language and published in 2011 under the pen name of Ava Farmer. |
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He silenced the klaxon on the Prime Ministerial car, which Eden had used frequently, and advertised his love of reading Anthony Trollope and Jane Austen. |
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In December 1802 Austen received her only known proposal of marriage. |
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However, Asquith's first budget, in 1906, was constrained by the annual income and expenditure plans he had inherited from his predecessor Austen Chamberlain. |
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Said was relentless in his attacks against Austen, depicting her as a racist and supporter of slavery whose books should be condemned rather than celebrated. |
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The years from 1801 to 1804 are something of a blank space for Austen scholars as Cassandra destroyed all of her letters from her sister in this period for unknown reasons. |
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While retirement and travel were good for the elder Austens, Jane Austen was shocked to be told she was moving from the only home she had ever known. |
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Another additional autobiographical influence might be Austen's brother, Charles Austen who served as a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. |
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