Jane Austen: Background Of Her Novels
First published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has consistently been Jane
Austen's most popular novel. It portrays life in the genteel rural society
of the day, and tells of the initial misunderstandings and later mutual
enlightenment between Elizabeth Bennet (whose liveliness and quick wit have
often attracted readers) and the haughty Darcy. The title Pride and
Prejudice refers (among other things) to the ways in which Elizabeth and
Darcy first view each other. The original version of the novel was written
in 1796-1797 under the title First Impressions, and was probably in the
form of an exchange of letters.
Jane Austen's own tongue-in-cheek opinion of her work, in a letter to her
sister ...
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increased
delight to the playfulness and general epigrammatism of the general style".
In 1809 Jane Austen, her mother, sister Cassandra, and Martha Lloyd moved
to Chawton, near Alton and Winchester, where her brother Edward provided a
small house on one of his estates. This was in Hampshire, not far from her
childhood home of Steventon. Before leaving Southampton, she corresponded
with the dilatory publisher to whom she had sold Susan (i.e. Northanger
Abbey), but without receiving any satisfaction.
She resumed her literary activities soon after returning into Hampshire,
and revised Sense and Sensibility, which was accepted in late 1810 or early
1811 by a publisher, for publication at her own risk. It appeared
anonymously ("By a Lady") in October 1811, and at first only her immediate
family knew of her authorship: Fanny Knight's diary for September 28, 1811
records a "Letter from Aunt Cass. to beg we would not mention that Aunt
Jane wrote Sense and Sensibility"; and one day in 1812 ...
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second edition was published later in 1813. A second
edition of Sense and Sensibility was also published in October 1813. In May
1814, Mansfield Park appeared, and was sold out in six months; she had
already started work on Emma. Her brother Henry, who then conveniently
lived in London, often acted as Jane Austen's go-between with publishers,
and on several occasions she stayed with him in London to revise proof-
sheets. In October 1813, one of the Prince Regent's physicians was brought
in to treat an illness that Henry was suffering from; it was through this
connection that Jane Austen was brought into contact with Mr. Clarke. James
Stanier Clarke was the Prince Regent's librarian, and ...
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