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Angela Youngman Jane Austen

the writer, the story and places to go

Biography & Autobiography
English
17598 Words
Ages 12 and up
331
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Sparkling and witty, the stories of Jane Austen are memorable – especially Pride and Prejudice. Reasons for her popularity are not hard to find. The wit, humour and sparkling comedy have instant appeal, as do the characters – especially Elizabeth and Darcy. She has been credited with creating the modern English novel with its psychological insights, page turning ability, romantic interest and sheer depth of characterisation. Her characters have stayed relevant throughout the generations ensuring that the books have never been out of print The daughter of a clergyman, she was a member of the gentry and able to take part in the social whirl of the time. Although she had many suitors, she never married. Finding a husband proved impossible – due mainly to the fact that the family had no money. Jane was all too well aware of the problems faced by single women of her status in life, and her books reflect this admirably. Her love affair with James Lefoy, an Irish lawyer has been turned into a film: Becoming Jane. Her niece Fanny was told ‘Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without Affection’. Her early death came just as she was becoming established as a writer. Jane Austen is mostly associated with Bath but her life, books and the location of film and TV productions cover a much wider area. From London to India, from Hampshire to York, Chatsworth to Hollywood – the Jane Austen connections are worldwide. A unique combination of biography and guidebook; this e book tells the story of Jane Austen, her life and work. Some extremely memorable films have been produced especially the BBC adaptation starring Colin Firth and the Bollywood version Bride & Prejudice. It looks at the locations that are associated with her, or with filming. In total nearly one hundred locations are included, each dealt with in considerable detail highlighting appropriate links, history and tourist information. It makes a fascinating read combining a unique guidebook with background information and an introduction to this renowned writer. [more]

Keywords: Jane Austen, English literature, Georgian England, Pride & Prejudice, Bath, Chatsworth, Darcy, film, television

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Jane Austen Emma By Jane Austen

Fiction
English
156880 Words
No Age Recommendation
297
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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father; and had, in consequence of her sister's marriage, been mistress of his house from a very early period. Her mother had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct remembrance of her caresses; and her place had been supplied by an excellent woman as governess, who had fallen little short of a mother in affection. [more]

Keywords: Emma, Jane Austen, Emma By Jane Austen

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SAREJESS Jane Austen 3.11

WRITNG CLASSICS

Fiction
English
1033 Words
No Age Recommendation
653
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Jane Austen writer of classic novel

Keywords: Jane Austen, computers

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Jane Austen Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen

Fiction
English
77139 Words
No Age Recommendation
235
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This little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended for immediate publication. It was disposed of to a bookseller, it was even advertised, and why the business proceeded no farther, the author has never been able to learn. That any bookseller should think it worth-while to purchase what he did not think it worth-while to publish seems extraordinary. But with this, neither the author nor the public have any other concern than as some observation is necessary upon those parts of the work which thirteen years have made comparatively obsolete. The public are entreated to bear in mind that thirteen years have passed since it was finished, many more since it was begun, and that during that period, places, manners, books, and opinions have undergone considerable changes. [more]

Keywords: Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

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Jane Austen Mansfield Park By Jane Austen

Fiction
English
155331 Words
No Age Recommendation
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About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. [more]

Keywords: Mansfield Park, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park By Jane Austen

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Jane Austen Lady Susan By Jane Austen

Fiction
English
23007 Words
No Age Recommendation
268
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Langford, Dec. My Dear Brother,—I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill, and, therefore, if quite convenient to you and Mrs. Vernon to receive me at present, I shall hope within a few days to be introduced to a sister whom I have so long desired to be acquainted with. My kind friends here are most affectionately urgent with me to prolong my stay, but their hospitable and cheerful dispositions lead them too much into society for my present situation and state of mind; and I impatiently look forward to the hour when I shall be admitted into your delightful retirement. [more]

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Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen

Fiction
English
118563 Words
No Age Recommendation
321
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The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent. His attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence. [more]

Keywords: Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen

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JAMES EDWARD AUSTEN LEIGH MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN

Poetry
English
51483 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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A Memoir of Jane Austen is a biography of the novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) published in 1869 by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh. A second edition was published in 1871 which included previously unpublished Jane Austen writings. A family project, the biography was written by James Edward Austen-Leigh but owed much to the recollections of Jane Austen's many relatives. However, it was the decisions of her close friend and sister, Cassandra Austen, to destroy many of Jane's letters after her death that shaped the material available for the biography. Austen-Leigh described his "dear Aunt Jane" domestically, as someone who was uninterested in fame and who only wrote in her spare time. However, the manuscripts appended to the second edition suggest that Jane Austen was intensely interested in revising her manuscripts and was perhaps less content than Austen-Leigh described her. The Memoir does not attempt to unreservedly tell the story of Jane Austen's life. Following the Victorian conventions of biography, it kept much private information from the public, but family members disagreed over just how much should be revealed, for example, regarding Austen's romantic relationships. The Memoir introduced the public to the works of Jane Austen, generating interest in novels which only the literary elite had read up until that point. It remained the primary biographical work on the author for over half a century. [more]

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James Edward Austen-Leigh Memoir of Jane Austen

Fiction
English
50030 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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More than half a century has passed away since I, the youngest of the mourners, {1} attended the [more]

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William Austen Leigh , Richard Arthur Austen Leigh Jane Austen, Her Life And Letters (Fiscle Part-Xi) Part 2

Family & Relationships
English
70282 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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We Are Now Bringing Jane Austen To The Home Which She Was To Occupy Through All The Remaining Eight Years Of Her Life--The Home From Which She Went To Lie On Her Deathbed At Winchester. Into This Period Were To Be Crowded A Large Proportion Of Her Most Important Literary Work, And All The Contemporary Recognition Which She Was Destined To Enjoy. The First Six Of These Years Must Have Been Singularly Happy. [more]

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