Austen, Jane

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1. A British author of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; her best-known works are the novels Pride and Prejudice and Emma. Austen is particularly famous for her witty irony and perceptive comments about people and their social relationships.

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Austen, Jane

Austen, Jane, her life and personality, 265-267; opinions of Walter Scott, Macaulay, and Miss Mitford concerning, 266, 267; her Pride and Prejudice, 268; Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, 268, 269; her qualities, 270, 271; burial-place, 270.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell

Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice, an old-fashioned story, interesting, but liable to be called dull by those who read only the lively stories of the day.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester

Austen, Jane, 7, 21, 29, 90, 130, 131, 221, 222;  Emma, 90, 130, 146;  Pride and Prejudice, 131, 146.

From A Manual of the Art of Fiction by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

Austen Jane Rode Lilly all the season through,   And never opened wires again.

From The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling

Austen, Jane, 4, 19, 26, 88, 127, 128, 215, 217; Emma, 88, 127, 143; Pride and Prejudice, 128, 143.

From Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Clayton Meeker Hamilton