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.

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.

Jane Austen's niece Fanny danced quadrilles and in their correspondence Jane mentions that she finds them much inferior to the cotillions of her own youth.

" 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.

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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.

Charlotte believed that art was most convincing when based on personal experience ; in Jane Eyre she transformed this experience into a novel with universal appeal.

However sales of Jane Eyre continued to be strong, and may have increased as a result of the novel developing a reputation as an ' improper ' book.

Following the success of Jane Eyre, in 1848 Charlotte began work on the manuscript of her second novel, Shirley.

In Charlotte Bronte's novel, Jane Eyre, Mr Brocklehurst illustrates the dangers and hypocrisies that Charlotte Brontë perceived in the nineteenth-century Evangelical movement.

Already in 1827, female science fiction author Jane C. Loudon wrote the novel The Mummy!

Another writer in this tradition was Henry Farrell whose best-known work was the Hollywood horror novel What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

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.

He later fictionalized this marriage in his novel Blind Date, speaking of Weir under pseudonym Mary – Jane Kirkland.

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

Persuasion ( novel ) | Persuasion, novel by Jane Austen .... For Sir Elliot, baronet, the hints of Mr Sheppard, his agent, was very unwelcome

* Mr. ( Edward ) Rochester, a character in the novel Jane Eyre

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.

Charlotte Bronte wrote her second novel, Jane Eyre, in 1847

Dobbin's infatuation with Amelia is a theme which unifies the novel and one which many have compared to Thackeray's unrequited love for a friend's wife ( Jane Brookfield ).

Jane Austen used the pseudonym " A Lady " as the author of her first novel Sense and Sensibility.

The story of the Babington Plot is dramatised in the novel Conies in the Hay by Jane Lane.

It was not printed until December 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, after the success of her sister Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre.

In 1997, Jocelyn Moorhouse directed A Thousand Acres, based on Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in 1990s Iowa.

Sophia Jane Goulden used the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin – written by Beecher's sister Harriet Beecher Stowe – as a regular source of bedtime stories for their sons and daughters.

* Mansfield Park ( novel ), by Jane Austen

Critically, it is considered a Bildungsroman – i. e., a novel of self-cultivation – and would be included in the same genre as Dickens's own Great Expectations ( 1861 ), Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh, H. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay, D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.