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Austen and addresses
The directness with which Austen addresses the reader, especially at the end of the story, gives a unique insight into Austen's thoughts at the time, which is particularly important due to her letters having been burned at her request by her sister upon her death.

Austen and reader
In many respects, the novel ’ s “ current readerof the time was the woman who “ lay down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame ,” according to Jane Austen, author of Northanger Abbey.
:" We can guess that Susan original title of Northanger Abbey, in its first outline, was written very much for family entertainment, addressed to a family audience, like all Jane Austen ’ s juvenile works, with their asides to the reader, and absurd dedications ; some of the juvenilia, we know, were specifically addressed to her brothers Charles and Frank ; all were designed to be circulated and read by a large network of relations.
Austen allows the reader to imagine the development of the town ’ s reputation as it spread from mouth to mouth in one direction and the way in which the number of families was augmented in the other.
All three of the listed characteristics, and the result, have precedents in the literature of Austen ’ s period, and each would evoke a series of associations in the mind of the reader ; but Austen restructures the associations by the fashion in which she gives each of these particular items the same effect on the outcome.

Austen and directly
In this description, on the other hand, although there are many elements of the description that we could transfer directly from the grounds to the suitor ( natural beauty, lack of artifice ), Austen is emphasizing the consistency of the domain of use rather than stretching to make a fresh comparison: each of the things she describes she associates with Darcy, and in the end we feel that Darcy is as beautiful as the place to which he is compared and that he belongs within it.

Austen and parts
Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).
An interesting production feature of the Austen was that some parts were manufactured by the diecasting process.

Austen and particularly
James was not particularly enthusiastic about Jane Austen, so he might not have regarded the comparison as flattering.
After visiting Sidmouth in 1801, Jane Austen spent a long holiday at Dawlish in 1802, later complaining about its " particularly pitiful and wretched library ".
Jane Austen, who was herself a member of the gentry, shrewdly summarised the appeal of these works, which was particularly strong for those included in them, in the opening words of her novel Persuasion ( 1818 ):
Clarke ’ s style has frequently been described as a pastiche, particularly of nineteenth-century British writers such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and George Meredith.
" She explains in an interview that she was particularly influenced by the historical fiction of Rosemary Sutcliff as well as the fantasies of Ursula K. Le Guin and Alan Garner, and that she loves the works of Austen.

Austen and at
Although Jane Austen tried her hand at the epistolary in juvenile writings and her novella Lady Susan, she abandoned this structure for her later work.
This area includes such famous peaks as K2 ( Mount Godwin Austen, at 8, 611 meters the second highest peak in the world ).
In 1953, the Rockwell family moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, so that his wife could be treated at the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital at 25 Main Street, down Main Street from where Rockwell set up his studio.
In 1817, the bookseller was content to sell it back to the novelist's brother, Henry Austen, for the exact sum — £ 10 — that he had paid for it at the beginning, not knowing that the writer was by then the author of four popular novels.
Years later Dr. Margaret Gibson, the psychiatrist who had treated Frances at Austen Riggs, described Henry Fonda: “ He was a cold, self-absorbed person, a complete narcissist .”
After criticism of Lloyd George over the Chanak crisis mounted, Conservative leader Austen Chamberlain summoned a meeting of Conservative Members of Parliament at the Carlton Club to discuss their attitude to the Coalition in the forthcoming election.
A crystal lens, turned on the lathe, was discovered by Austen Henry Layard at Nimrud along with glass vases bearing the name of Sargon ; this could explain the excessive minuteness of some of the writing on the Assyrian tablets, and a lens may also have been used in the observation of the heavens.
Austen describes the house and Elizabeth's admiration for the estate at length as an indirect way of describing her feelings for Mr. Darcy.
However, as Austen Chamberlain was still officially at least a Liberal Unionist, his candidature was opposed by many Conservatives, because they already had the Liberal Unionist Lord Lansdowne leading them in the House of Lords.
From a German edition of Austen Layard's A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh.
Austen Chamberlain succeeds Ritchie at the Exchequer.
In 1925 Spare, Alan Odle, John Austen, and Harry Clarke showed together at the St George's Gallery, and in 1930 at the Godfrey Philips Galleries.
The 164th Regiment took part in repulsing a major Japanese offensive in October 1942, while the 132nd Regiment assaulted the highly fortified Japanese Gifu defensive complex at Mount Austen in January 1943.
Bonar initially became frustrated with the slow speed of Parliament compared to the rapid pace of the Glasgow iron market, and Austen Chamberlain recalled him saying to Chamberlain that " it was very well for men who, like myself had been able to enter the House of Commons young to adapt to a Parliamentary career, but if he had known what the House of Commons was he would never had entered at this stage ".
The group met approximately twenty times at Buckingham Palace between June and November 1910, with the Conservatives represented by Arthur Balfour, Lord Cawdor, Lord Lansdowne and Austen Chamberlain.
Austen Chamberlain was born in Birmingham, the second child and eldest son of Joseph Chamberlain, then a rising industrialist and political radical, later Mayor of Birmingham and a dominant figure in Liberal and Unionist politics at the end of the 19th century.
Austen was educated first at Rugby School, before passing on to Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was succeeded at the Exchequer by Sir Robert Horne, and it seemed that after ten years of waiting, Austen would again be given the opportunity of succeeding to the premiership.
Wilson ’ s widow blamed the government for his death – when Conservative leader Austen Chamberlain called on the evening of his death to offer his condolences, he was by one account greeted by her with the word “ murderer ” and by another simply asked to leave by Wilson ’ s niece – and she was only persuaded to allow government representation at the funeral on the grounds that not to do so would be disrespectful to the King.

Austen and end
In the end, Andrew Bonar Law was elected unopposed by Unionist Members, and Austen Chamberlain would have to wait ten years for his chance to lead the united party.
* Austen Lane, defensive end for the Jacksonville Jaguars
After settling in Reading and at the end of the war he was selected by the local Constituency Labour Party for the 1945 general election, beating James Callaghan and Austen Albu.

Austen and Chapter
* In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, the couple that elopes in Chapter 47 leaves behind a note stating that their intended destination is Gretna Green.
* Mansfield Park ( novel ) by Jane Austen reference to Repton, Chapter 6.
* Emma by Jane Austen Chapter XII

Austen and 5
Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB, PC (; 5 March 1817 – 5 July 1894 ) was a British traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, author, politician and diplomat, best known as the excavator of Nimrud.
Cedric Austen Bardell Smith ( 5 February 1917 – 10 January 2002 ) was a British statistician and geneticist.
* Sir Francis William Austen 5 June 1862 – 11 December 1862
* July 5: Austen Henry Layard

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