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: 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 Sylvester, Charles Herbert

Austen, Jane, as novelist of manners, 21, 24.

From Studies in Literature and History by Miller, John O.

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 Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

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 Mitchell, Donald G.

Austen, Jane, novels of, ii, 247; family of, ii, 243; home of, ii, 249; friends of, ii, 254; characters of, ii, 253; referred to, v, 294.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Hubbard, Elbert