In many respects, the novel ’ s “ current reader ” of the time was the woman who “ lay down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame ,” according to Jane Austen, author of Northanger Abbey.

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Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym " A Lady ".

Jane Austen wrote the first draft of the novel in the form of a novel-in-letters ( epistolary form ) sometime around 1795 when she was about 19 years old, and gave it the title, Elinor and Marianne.

In contrast, the novels of Scott's contemporary Jane Austen, once appreciated only by the discerning few ( including, as it happened, Sir Walter Scott himself ) rose steadily in critical esteem, though Austen, as a female writer, was still faulted for her narrow (" feminine ") choice of subject matter, which, unlike Scott, avoided the grand historical themes traditionally viewed as masculine.

The incident caused an avalanche of negative media reaction, and inspired sportswriter Austen Lake's famous comment that when Williams name was announced the sound was like " autumn wind moaning through an apple orchard.

It was revised by Austen for the press in 1803, and sold in the same year for £ 10 to a London bookseller, Crosby & Co., who decided against publishing.

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.

:" 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.

* An adaptation of Northanger Abbey with screenplay by Andrew Davies, was shown on ITV on 25 March 2007 as part of their " Jane Austen Season ".

In the 1920s, when Waley's translation was published, reviewers compared Genji to Austen, Proust, and Shakespeare.

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 .”

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.

Claire Tomalin gives a detailed account of this in her biography of Jane Austen, who was fostered in this manner, as were all her siblings, from a few months old until they were toddlers.

Shields was also intensely interested in Jane Austen.

In the late 18th century, it housed the Abbey School for Girls, which was attended by novelist Jane Austen.

The standard version was discovered by Austen Henry Layard in the library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh in 1849.

James was not particularly enthusiastic about Jane Austen, so he might not have regarded the comparison as flattering.

Nippur was first excavated, briefly, by Sir Austen Henry Layard in 1851.

It was discovered by archaeologist Sir Austen Henry Layard in 1846.

Chamberlain was the father, by different marriages, of Sir Austen Chamberlain and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.

His knowledge of literature and films was unusually extensive, and in his interviews, he named Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Francis Bacon, George Balanchine, Balthus, Louis Feuillade, Ronald Firbank, Lady Murasaki Shikibu, Robert Musil, Yasujiro Ozu, Anthony Trollope, and Johannes Vermeer as some of his favorite artists.

There is ongoing discussion among academics over the nature of the Nimrud lens, a piece of quartz unearthed by Austen Henry Layard in 1850, in the Nimrud palace complex in northern Iraq.

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813.

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Austen also satirizes Clermont, a Gothic novel by Regina Maria Roche.

Austen turns the conventions of eighteenth-century novels on their head, by making her heroine a plain and undistinguished girl from a middle-class family, allowing the heroine to fall in love with the hero before he has a serious thought of her, and exposing the heroine's romantic fears and curiosities as groundless.

Austen biographer Claire Tomalin speculates that Austen may have begun this book, which is more explicitly comic than her other works and contains many literary allusions that her parents and siblings would have enjoyed, as a family entertainment — a piece of lighthearted parody to be read aloud by the fireside.

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.

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Devastated by Fonda ’ s confession, and plagued by emotional problems for many years, Frances went into the Austen Riggs Psychiatric Hospital in January 1950 for treatment.

These ideas were supported by other historians, including Ralph Austen ( 1987 ).

A tablet unearthed in 1854 by Austen Henry Layard in Nineveh reveals Ashurbanipal as an " avenger ", seeking retribution for the humiliations the Elamites had inflicted on the Mesopotamians over the centuries:

She wrote the biography entitled Jane Austen, which won the $ 25, 000 Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction in April 2002, an award accepted by her daughter Meg on her behalf in Toronto, Ontario, on April 22, 2002.

* Mansfield Park ( novel ), by Jane Austen

* Janeites ( fans of Jane Austen )

In a 2006 interview, Austen commented sarcastically on his bad image among comic book fans, later acknowledging having had a " bad day " during that interview, and being overtly cynical.

Anna Chancellor of Four Weddings and a Funeral fame played Mr. Bingley's sister Caroline Bingley ( of interest to Austen fans Anna Chancellor is also Jane Austen's niece by eight generations ).

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.

Austen paid for the book to be published and paid the publisher a commission on sales.

Austen almost never refers to specific dates or historical events in her novels, but wartime England forms part of the general backdrop to several of them: in Pride and Prejudice ( 1813, but possibly written during the 1790s ), the local militia ( civilian volunteers ) has been called up for home defence and its officers play an important role in the plot ; in Mansfield Park ( 1814 ), Fanny Price's brother William is a midshipman ( officer in training ) in the Royal Navy ; and in Persuasion ( 1818 ), Frederic Wentworth and several other characters are naval officers recently returned from service.

* Austen Chamberlain ( to 1917 ), and then Edwin Samuel Montagu – Secretary of State for India

Some social behaviour in the Harry Potter books is remininiscent of Austen, for example the excited communal reading of letters.

* the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction ( Jane Austen )

Austen describes the house and Elizabeth's admiration for the estate at length as an indirect way of describing her feelings for Mr. Darcy.

The royal commissions continued during the 1820s, including one for a portrait of the king's sister Sophia, and one of Sir Walter Scott ( along with Jane Austen, one of Lawrence's favourite authors ), as well as one to paint King Charles X of France for the Waterloo series, for which Lawrence made a trip to Paris, taking Herman Wolff with him.

By now, Chamberlain's son, Austen, had also entered the House of Commons unopposed for East Worcestershire in March 1892.

Balfour agreed to promote Austen to the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer, who would then speak for his father inside the Cabinet.