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To sentimentality Jane Austen was a foe.
—Goldwin Smith, On Austen
Jane
Austen
Jane Austen
 
1775–1817, English novelist. The daughter of a clergyman, she spent the first 25 years of her life at “Steventon,” her father’s Hampshire vicarage. Here her first novels, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Northanger Abbey, were written, although they were not published until much later.… The novels published in Austen’s lifetime were Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816). Persuasion was issued in 1818 with Northanger Abbey.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.)
 
Pronunciation:  ô´stn from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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Pride and Prejudice
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. III, Part 2.
 
Austen, Jane, 4856 to 4988
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
 
 
WRITINGS ABOUT AUSTEN
 
Jane Austen
Chapter by Harold Child with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.



 
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