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Jane and Austen's
For example, Ralph Waldo Emerson ’ s contempt for Jane Austen's works often extended to the author herself, with Emerson describing her as “ without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world .” In turn, Emerson himself was called a “ hoary-headed toothless baboon ” by Thomas Carlyle.
The most famous parody of the Gothic is Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey ( 1818 ) in which the naive protagonist, after reading too much Gothic fiction, conceives herself a heroine of a Radcliffian romance and imagines murder and villainy on every side, though the truth turns out to be much more prosaic.
Jane Austen's novel is valuable for including a list of early Gothic works since known as the Northanger Horrid Novels.
These books, with their lurid titles, were once thought to be the creations of Jane Austen's imagination, though later research by Michael Sadleir and Montague Summers confirmed that they did actually exist and stimulated renewed interest in the Gothic.
" La Boulangere ", the only dance mentioned by name in Jane Austen's writings, is a simple circle dance for a group of couples.
Some enthusiasts go to extremes: Cisco Systems founders Sandra Lerner and Len Bosack created a foundation that bought a Regency-era country house once owned by Jane Austen's brother.
Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Wickham discuss Mr. Darcy during a whist party in chapter 16 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
* January 28 – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is published.
Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.
* Jane Austen's Mafia!
Chatsworth House appeared in the 2005 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
For example, in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, the main character Elizabeth's change of heart and love for her suitor, Mr. Darcy, is first revealed when she sees his house:
* Jane Austen's Will
* Sir Thomas Bertram, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
* Sir Walter Elliot, Jane Austen's Persuasion
The book is often compared to Jane Austen's work for the clarity and grace of its prose and its intense focus on family relationships.
* Camilla ( Burney novel ), a novel by Frances Burney ( mentioned in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey )
* Catherine or Kitty, from Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice
Clueless is a 1995 American comedy film loosely based on Jane Austen's 1815 novel, Emma.
Fellows and alumni have included Archbishop William Laud, Jane Austen's father and brothers, the early Fabian intellectual Sidney Ball, who was very influential in the creation of the Workers ' Educational Association ( WEA ), Rushanara Ali, Labour Politician and one of the first Bangladeshis to gain a PPE degree at St John's College and more recently, Tony Blair, former prime minister of the United Kingdom.
The house was also used as the internal Pemberley scenes in the BBC dramatisation ( 1995 ) of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
The hall was used as Pemberley, the seat of Mr. Darcy, in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, and as a location for the Red Dwarf episode " Timeslides ".
That same year he played his role as Mr. Woodhouse in a television adaptation of Jane Austen's famously irrepressible Emma, a four-hour miniseries that premiered on BBC One in October 2009, co-starring Jonny Lee Miller and Romola Garai.

Jane and niece
Jane Dzanjalimodzi is the grand niece is the former executrix of his estate.
This enlarged the estate of the lord of the manor, the Reverend John Rawstorn Papillon, who was an acquaintance of Jane Austen and whose niece married Jane's brother Henry.
He died at Chiswick, Middlesex, on 31 May 1806, the title becoming extinct, and his property, after the death of his widow ( Lady Jane Stuart, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Bute ; they were married in 1768 ), going to his niece, whose son took the name.
She is the daughter of Peter Fonda, niece of Jane Fonda and granddaughter of Henry Fonda.
Two nephews and a niece were added: John H. Bayard ( 1762 – 1820 ), Jane Bayard ( 1765 -?
He was born on January 11, 1843 at the corner of Greenwich and Carlyle Streets, New York City the son of Edward Satterlee and Jane Anna Yates, the daughter Henry Christopher Yates, an attorney-at-law ; and for a number of years a New York State Senator and member of the Council of Appointment and Catharine, daughter of Johannes Mynderse and a grand niece of Joseph Christopher Yates, who was an American lawyer, politician.
Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long ( 1798 – 1880 ) was born July 23, 1798 in Charles County, Maryland, the niece of General James Wilkinson.
* Jane Austen's Sanditon: A continuation, by Anna Austen Lefroy ( Austen's niece ), ISBN 0-942506-04-9 ( also unfinished )
Their surviving correspondence includes a letter of condolence of 4 April 1799, from Burney to Chapone, on the death in childbirth of Jane Jeffreyes, née Mulso, the niece to whom the Letters on the Improvement of the Mind had been addressed.
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 ).
Eva Linton died in 1980, and her estate was passed to her niece Dorothy Jane Snyder.
Franklin's redoubtable wife Jane Griffin, Lady Franklin, is also interred at Kensal Green in the vault, and commemorated on a marble cross dedicated to her niece Sophia Cracroft.
Henry Brandon's niece Lady Jane Grey eventually, and briefly, succeeded to the throne on 10 July 1553.
* Lady Jane Grey, her eldest niece.
His ex-wife, the former Carolyn Jane Mercer, is the daughter of flat jockey Manny Mercer, niece of jockey Joe Mercer and granddaughter of jockey Harry Wragg.
Jane takes on the role of Rebecca's protector, acting as a buffer between her niece and her sister, and teaches Rebecca to sew, cook and be a proper little housekeeper.
The whole Yorkhill estate was left by him to his niece, Jane Gilbert, when he died in 1838.

Jane and Fanny
Jane Austen, who referred to Fanny Burney as " the first of English novelists ," in Northanger Abbey refers to her inspiring novels:
The Janet Nicoll visited Tuvalu ; while Fanny records that they made landfall at Funafuti and Niutao, Jane Resture suggests that it was more likely that they visited Nukufetau rather than Funafuti.
In a drunken daze, Jane decides to revive her childhood singing and dancing act of Baby Jane, reasoning that Fanny Brice had success with Baby Snooks.
Onscreen, he continued in older roles: in Fanny ( 1961 ) starring Leslie Caron ; Barefoot in the Park ( 1967 ) with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda ; and the French film Stavisky ( 1974, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo ), the latter winning him the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor, and also received the Special Tribute at Cannes Film Festival.
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 ).
Cherry Valley was the birthplace of John H. Funk ( 1817-1871 ), State Assemblyman from New York City in 1857, and his younger sister Jane Augusta Funk ( 1823-1860 ), better known as the notorious Fanny White.
* " Mansfield Park " by Jane Austen – Fanny Price refers to Dr. Johnson's celebrated judgment when she is comparing Mansfield Park and Portsmouth.
In 1897 Tudor remarried to Fanny Jane Mead.
Frances Jane Crosby ( March 24, 1820 – February 12, 1915 ), usually known as Fanny Crosby in the United States and by her married name, Frances van Alstyne, in the United Kingdom, was an American Methodist rescue mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer.
Frances Jane " Fanny " Crosby was born on March 24, 1820, in the village of Brewster, about north of New York City.
At the end of March 2008, he began working with Oscar-winning director Jane Campion on her film Bright Star, a love story with Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish portraying John Keats and his lover Fanny Brawne.
Alda was born Fanny Jane Davis in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1879.
* Fanny Price, protagonist of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
His wife is mentioned in Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen, in a letter from Mary Crawford to Fanny Price while Fanny is staying with her mother and father in Portsmouth: I was there, two years ago, when Lady Lascelles had it, and I prefer it over any other house in London ( She is talking about a house in Wimpole Street.
The following year he married Frances Anna Jane " Fanny " Stanhope, a daughter of the Hon.
She was the voice of Fanny in the 2-cassette 1997 BBC radio dramatization of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.
Other comics in the tradition of, and possibly inspired by, Jane include Male Call, Sally the Sleuth and Little Annie Fanny.
Uh, pardon me if I sound like a name dropper, but, uh, let's look into three or four of the names we've lined up for next week's show: Groucho Marx, Fanny Brice, Jane Powell and Ezio Pinnnn-za!
As she promised, on the second week's program, the guests were Groucho Marx, Jane Powell, Ezio Pinza and Fanny Brice, along with Hanley Stafford, Frank Lovejoy, David Brian and John Agar ( the latter three recreating their screen roles in highlights from their current Warner Bros. picture, Breakthrough ).
Annabella died in childbirth in 1814 and on 24 October 1820, Knatchbull married secondly Fanny Catherine Knight, daughter of Edward Knight ( né Edward Austen, the brother of English novelist Jane Austen ).
Colvin was already acquainted with Fanny ( Frances Jane ) Sitwell, a woman of thirty four, with a young son, separated from her husband.

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