Jane Austen's Manuscript Works (18th Century)

Author:   Jane Austen ,  Linda Bree ,  Peter Sabor ,  Janet Todd
Publisher:   Broadview Press Ltd
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Pages:   350
Publication Date:   14 December 2012
Format:   Paperback
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When Jane Austen died, at the age of 41, she left behind not only her six novels but a large number of manuscripts, ranging from juvenile works to the novel that she was writing at the time of her final illness. The six published novels are now undisputed classics. The manuscripts, however, despite the brilliant writing they contain and the ways in which they illuminate Jane Austen’s work as a novelist, are much less well known.

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Author:   Jane Austen ,  Linda Bree ,  Peter Sabor ,  Janet Todd
Publisher:   Broadview Press Ltd
Imprint:   Broadview Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.511kg
ISBN:  

9781554810581


ISBN 10:   1554810582
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   14 December 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Jane Austen: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Juvenilia Lady Susan The Watsons Sanditon Appendix A: Austen’s Letters about Fiction Appendix B: Continuations of “Evelyn” and “Catharine” by James Edward Austen and Anna Lefroy Appendix C: “Love and Friendship” (1790) and Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778) Appendix D: From Mary Wollstonecraft’s Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787): “Unfortunate Situation of Females, fashionably educated, and left without a Fortune” Appendix E: From Walter Scott, Quarterly Review (October 1815) Select Bibliography

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As the informative and scholarly Introduction suggests, these manuscript works, with their combination of boisterous satire and cool detachment, throw a startling light on Jane Austen's writing practices and the achievements of her great novels. Edited by three distinguished Austen scholars, with useful notes at the bottom of the page, this is a volume all teachers and lovers of her work will want to possess. -- John Wiltshire, La Trobe University, Melbourne Here, in a form fully annotated and accessible to students, we have 'the Other Jane Austen'--a selection of the juvenilia, the wicked 'Lady Susan, ' and the tantalising fragments 'The Watsons' and 'Sanditon.' No longer buried as 'Minor Works, ' these sparkling productions, unpublished in her lifetime, provide indispensable insight into a brilliant author at work and at play. -- Juliet McMaster, University of Alberta


Here, in a form fully annotated and accessible to students, we have 'the Other Jane Austen'--a selection of the juvenilia, the wicked 'Lady Susan, ' and the tantalising fragments 'The Watsons' and 'Sanditon.' No longer buried as 'Minor Works, ' these sparkling productions, unpublished in her lifetime, provide indispensable insight into a brilliant author at work and at play. --Juliet McMaster, University of Alberta


“As the informative and scholarly Introduction suggests, these manuscript works, with their combination of boisterous satire and cool detachment, throw a startling light on Jane Austen’s writing practices and the achievements of her great novels. Edited by three distinguished Austen scholars, with useful notes at the bottom of the page, this is a volume all teachers and lovers of her work will want to possess.” — John Wiltshire, La Trobe University, Melbourne “Here, in a form fully annotated and accessible to students, we have ‘the Other Jane Austen’—a selection of the juvenilia, the wicked ‘Lady Susan,’ and the tantalising fragments ‘The Watsons’ and ‘Sanditon.’ No longer buried as ‘Minor Works,’ these sparkling productions, unpublished in her lifetime, provide indispensable insight into a brilliant author at work and at play.” — Juliet McMaster, University of Alberta


Author Information

Linda Bree is Editorial Director, Arts and Literature at the Cambridge University Press and the editor of the Broadview Edition of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Peter Sabor is Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Eighteenth Century Studies at McGill University, and the editor of the Broadview Edition of Sarah Fielding’s The History of Ophelia. Janet Todd is President of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge and the co-editor of the Broadview Edition of Charlotte Smith’s Desmond.

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