Jane Austen's World

Jane Austen’s Novels, Juvenilia, Novel Fragments, and Letters

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This section is devoted to Jane’s novels as they are presented on websites and by other bloggers. For more scholarly articles, please visit Persuasions Online, The Online Journal of the Jane Austen Society of America. Other links to e-texts of Jane’s novels sit on AV/E-Texts andTeacher/Student sites. 

1. Juvenilia – links updated 6-2017

• Volume the First, Facsimile, Bodleian Library
• Volume the Second, Facsimile, Bodleian Library
• Volume the Third, Facsimile, Bodleian Library
• E-text
• Audio – History of England
• Audio – Love and Freindship (Friendship)
• A Collection of Juvenile Writings: Molland’s
• Lesley Castle
• Jane Austen’s Juvenilia, The British Library
• The History of England, British Library
• Jane Austen’s Juvenilia: Miscellaneous Scraps, Republic of Pemberley
• Comic fantasy in Jane Austen’s Juvenilia: female roguery and the charms of narcissism, JASNA
• Teaching Austen by Editing, From the Juvenilia to Emma, Juliet McMaster and Victoria Kortes-Papp
• The Family’s Influence on Jane Austen’s Juvenilia, Deborah Kaplan, Persuasions #10

2. Sense and Sensibility (Published 1811), links updated 6-2017

• Sense and Sensibility, e-text from Molland’s
• Sense and Sensibility, free audio book read by Elizabeth Klett, Librivox
• The Characters in Sense and Sensibility
• Sense and Sensibility: All my posts about the novel and its adaptations
• A Calendar for Sense and Sensibility
• Jane Austen and the Enclosure Movement: Sense and Sensibility and Land Reform, PDF document
• Colonel Brandon, An Officer and a Gentleman in Sense and Sensibility, Geoffrey Chapman
• Reshaping the Sexes in Sense and Sensibility, Moreland Perkins, partial Google book, click on “preview this book”
• Sense and Sensibility: An Eighteenth Century Narative, Diane Shubinsky
• Speaking of Silence: Speech and Silence as a Subversive Means of Power in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, Michael Beth Dinkler
• The Apprenticeship of Elinor Dashwood, June M. Frazer

3. Pride and Prejudice (Revised 1812; Published 1813), links updated 6-2017

• Pride and Prejudice, E-text from Austen.com
• Pride and Prejudice, Audio from Librivox
• The Characters in Pride and Prejudice
• Pride and Prejudice, Illustrated by C.E. Brock, 1901, Google Book, free eBook
• Pride and Prejudice Economics: Post on the blog
• Jane Austen Meets Carl Jung: Pride, Prejudice, and Personality Theory, Jenny Rytting
• Pride and Prejudice: The Limits of Society, Rice University
• Inside Pride and Prejudice, John Halperin, JASNA
• Mr. Bennet by Anne Stott
• Mr. Bingley’s Four or Five Thousand, and Other Fortunes..., JASNA, PDF
• Elizabeth and Mr. Bennet, Ivor Morris
• How Not to Father: Mr. Bennet and Mary, Gracia Fay Ellwood
• How Elizabeth Feels About Wickham and Colonel Fitzwilliam
• Mrs. Bennet’s Legacy: Austen’s Mothers in Film and Fiction, June Sturrock
• Mr. Collins Onscreen: Jane Austen’s Legacy of the Ridiculous, May M. Chan
• Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Collins, and the Art of Misreading, Carole Moses
• Pride and Prejudice Brock watercolour illustrations on Molland’s
• Pride and Prejudice on Shmoop
• Pride and Prejudice: Free script of the 1940 movie
• Pride and Prejudice: The Novel as Historical Source
• Dressing for the Netherfield Ball in Pride and Prejudice
• Every Savage Can Dance: Choreographic Courtship, Nora Foster Stovel
• A Fine House Richly Furnished: Pemberley and the Visiting of Country Houses, JASNA
• On Pettiness and Petticoats: The Significance of Petticoats in Pride and Prejudice, Efrat Margalit
• Pride and Prejudice: Screenplay of the 2005 film
• Pride and Prejudice: Screenplay of the 1995 film
• Pride and Prejudice: Screenplay of the 1940 film

4. Mansfield Park (Published 1814), links updated 6-2017

• Mansfield Park, e-text from Austen.com
• Mansfield Park, audio from Librivox
• The Characters in Mansfield Park
• Mansfield Park, blog about the novel
• Mansfield Park, Discussions at The Loiterer
• Mansfield Park: Mary Crawford’s Downfall in Edmund’s Eyes: Post on this blog
• Mansfield Park Brock Illustrations, Molland’s
• Jane Austen’s Case Study of Child Abuse: Fanny Price, Joan Klingel Ray
• Series of posts and links to Mansfield Park on this site
• Mansfield Park and Morgan’s Passing: Jane Austen’s and Anne Tyler’s Problem Novels, Gene Koppel
• Slipping the Leash: Lady Bertram’s Lap Dog, Sally B. Palmer
• Persuasions: Fresh Perspectives on Mansfield Park, series of articles
• The Crawfords: Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, the Loiterer
• “ Such a Dead Silence: ” Cultural Evil, Challenge, Deliberate Evil, and Metanoia in Mansfield Park, Gracia Fay Ellwood, Persuasions Online

5. Emma (Published 1815), links updated 6-2017

• Emma, e-text from Austen.com
• Emma, audio from Librivox
• Emma Adaptations: This extensive site is devoted to Emma
• The characters in Emma
• Emma: A Discussion, Fall 2006, Brooklyn Univ
• Character Transformation in Emma and Clueless, Jordie Margin
• Emma as a Masquerade: Womanliness and Power in Jane Austen’s Emma
• Jane Austen’s Emma: A Sourcebook, partial Google book
• The Woodhouse Defense League: Tongue in Cheek site from the Republic of Pemberley
• From Emma to Clueless: Ironic Representations of Jane Austen, PDF doc
• Reading Emma: Comic Irony, the Follies of Janeites, and Hermeneutic Mastery, William Duckworth
• The Riddles of Emma, Colleen A. Sheehan, Persuasions
• Music, character, and social standing in Jane Austen’s Emma
• Edward Austen Knight’s Godmersham Library and Jane Austen’s Emma
• Character Transformation in Emma and Clueless
• Re-reading Box Hill: 5 articles
• Portraits of the Prince Regent in Emma
• Movie Script of Gwynneth Paltrow version
• Movie Script of Clueless
• Persuasions: Discovering Emma in Vancouver, series of papers on Emma
• Persuasions: Emma, Austen at her Peak, series of papers on Emma

6. Persuasion (Published 1818 ), links updated 6-2017

• Persuasion , e-text from Austen.com
• Persuasion, audio from Librivox
• The Characters in Persuasion
• The Death of a Fiance in Persuasion and the Constant Heart
• Persuasion, digitized Google book, with Brock illustrations
• Persuasion, Brock Illustrations
• The Natural Sequel to An Unnatural Beginning: New Spaces for Lost Love in Persuasion
• The Rise and Fall of the House of Elliot, Eileen Sutherland
• Jane Austen, Persuasion: Irony and the Mysterious Vagaries of Narrative – Professor Belinda Jack, YouTube Video, 51 min, Gresham College
• The Byronic In Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice (Lord George Gordon Byron), Sarah Wootton, PDF page
• A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Jocelyn Harris, 2007
• The phraseology of Jane Austen’s Persuasion: Phraseological units as carriers of meaning, Bettina Starcke, PDF
• Admiral Croft and His Gig: Jane Austen’s Persuasion
• Thread-cases, Pin-cushions, and Card-racks: Women’s Work in the City in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Susan E. Jones
• Movie Transcript: Persuasion, 1996

7. Northanger Abbey (Published 1818 ), links update 6-2017

• Northanger Abbey, e-text from Molland’s
• Northanger Abbey, Audio from Librivox
• The Characters of Northanger Abbey
• The Long Publishing Journey of Northanger Abbey
• Northanger Abbey, Oxford World’s Classic
• Northanger Abbey: All my posts about the novel and its adaptations
• Northanger Abbey: A blog dedicated to the novel
• Northanger Abbey, digitized 1915 book with Brock illustrations
• Ellen Moody’s post about The Gothic Northanger Abbey
• The Real Henry Tilney? Margaret C. Sullivan, Tilneys and Trapdoors
• Northanger Abbey: Online book
• Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen, Claire Grogan, Google Book
• A Calendar for Northanger Abbey
• Irony and Political Education in Northanger Abbey
• Northanger Abbey: Catherine Morland and the Vice of the “Sympathetic Imagination”, Nicola Cummins
• The Northanger Hyacinths, Stephen Derry
• “Willy-Nilly” and Other Tales of Male-Tails: Rightful and Wrongful Laws of Inheritance in Northanger Abbey and Beyond, Deirdre Gilbert
• Northanger Abbey at the Movies
• Persuasions, 2010. Articles about “The Abbey”

8. Lady Susan (1793-1794), links updated 6-2017

• Full Text and Plot Summary, Bibliomania
• Lady Susan, Facsimile, Morgan Library
• Lady Susan Audio, from Librivox
• Calendar for Lady Susan: Ellen Moody
• A Calendar, Letters in and Sources for Lady Susan
• Lady Susan: A Vicious Jewel (Review on this blog)
• Lady Susan, A Soiree at Austenprose: 2 weeks of articles and discussions
• Lady Susan: The Wicked Mother in Jane Austen’s Novels, Persuasions
• Lady Susan: A Game of Capturing the Last Word from Lady Susan to Jane Austen and Then …, M. Soya

9. The Watsons (1804), links updated 6-2017

• Full eText: Molland’s
• The Watsons, Librivox Recording
• A Calendar for and the Characters and Story of the Watsons
• These Were the Days … Victorian Themes in Hubback’s Continuation of Jane Austen’s The Watsons
• Characters in The Watsons

10. Sanditon (Novel fragment, 1817), links updated 6-2017

• E text from University of Virginia
• Sanditon and Other Stories by Jane Austen: Girlebooks ebooks
• Sanditon: Half Topography, Half Romance
• Small Talk on Sanditon
• Sanditon: A Review
• Sanditon by the Seaside: Austenprose
• An Attempt at a Calendar and a List of the Letters in Sanditon

11. Letters, links updated 6-2017

• Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters, A Family Record, William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh, from Molland’s
• Jane’s Letter to her Sister, Facsimile, British Library
• Jane Austen’s Letters to Cassandra, University of Virginia
• Jane’s letter to James Stanier Clarke, British Library
• LeFaye Edition of Jane Austen’s Letters, from Molland’s
• Memoir of Jane Austen, Edward Austen Leigh, E-text from Project Gutenberg
• Memoir of Jane Austen, audio from Librivox
• Morgan Library, Jane Austen’s Writing: A Technical Perspective

12. Poetry, links updated 6-2017

• Jane Austen’s Ode to Mourning Clothes (this blog)
• Jane Austen’s Poems: No dates or sources given
• Jane Austen’s Poetry
• The Poetry of Jane Austen, David Selwyn, Jane Austen Society, Partial Google Book
• Happy the Lab’rer
• I’ve a Pain in my Head
• Miss Lloyd Has Now Went to Miss Green
• Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend
• My Dearest Frank, I Wish You Joy
• Ode to Pity
• Of a Ministry Pitiful, Angry, Mean
• Oh! Mr Best You’re Very Bad
• See they come, post haste from Thanet
• To the Memory of Mrs. Lefroy Who Died Dcr. 16th, My Birthday
• This Little Bag
• When Stretc’d on One’s Bed
• When Winchester Races

13. Prayers, links updated 6-2017

• An Evening Prayer by Jane Austen, Republic of Pemberley
• Jane Austen’s Prayers, Jane Austen Centre
• Jane Austen’s Prayers and Their Place in Her Life and Art, Bruce Stover

Literary Criticism about Jane Austen, links updated 6-2017

• A Companion to Jane Austen Studies, edited by Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin, PDF document, 328 p.
• Online Literary Criticism Collection: Jane Austen
• Jane Austen and Feminist Critics
• Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage, 1870-1940, Partial Google book
• Male Voices in Praise of Jane Austen

Miscellany, updated 6-2017

• A Companion to Jane Austen Studies, Laura Cooner Lambdin, Robert Thomas Lambdin, 2000, partial Google book
• Austen: posts about Jane Austen by 18th-century scholar Ellen Moody
• Jane Austen and Her Time: A Study of the Uses of the Almanac: Helen Moody’s excellent site
• Jane Austen’s Life and Work in Google Earth
• Jane Austen Locations
• Malcolm Bradbury on Jane Austen: Today Nobody Can Dismiss Her
• The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen, Janet Todd
• The Felicities of Rapid Motion: Jane Austen in the Ballroom, Allison Thompson
• The Rise of Novels: A Resource Page (With a concentration on Jane Austen)
• The Wisdom of Jane Austen, Shawna Mullen, 2003, Google book preview

From the History Section: Jane Austen – Biography, updated 6-2017

• 101 Things You Didn’t Know About Jane Austen, Patrice Hannon, 2007, partial Google book
• Above Vulgar Economy: Jane Austen and Money, Sheryl Bonar Craig
• A Structural Analysis of A Century of Wills from Jane Austen’s Family, 1705-1806
• A Fine Brush of Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen, Richard, Jenkyns, 2004, (first 96 pages)
• A New Portrait of Jane Austen, Melissa Dring, PDF document, Jane Austen’s Regency World, The Jane Austen Center
• Biography by Jan Fergus, Chapter One, PDF document, Jane Austen in Context, edited by Janet Todd, Cambridge University Press
• Jane Austen in Context, edited by Janet Todd, 2005, Cambridge University Press, ISBN# 0-521-82644-6
• Jane Austen and Her Art, Mary Lascelles, 1939. Partial Google book – preview
• Jane Austen: A Family Record, Deirdre Le Faye, 2004, partial Google book
• Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel, Claudia L. Johnson, 1990, partial Google book, preview
• Jane Austen and the Wars, the Loiterer
• Jane Austen’s Brothers, Jane Austen Centre Magazine
• Jane Austen’s Novels: The Art of Clarity,  Roger Gard, 1994, partial Google book, search inside
• Jane Austen’s Textual Lives: From Aeshchyllus to Bollywood, Kathryn Sutherland, 2005, partial Google book
• Jane Austen Related Posts: Dregston
• Jane Austen and 18th Century Courtesy Books, Penelope Joan Fritzer, 1997, partial Google book
• Jane Austen and Co: remaking the past in contemporary culture, Suzanne Rodin Pucci, James Thompson, 2003, partial Google book
• Jane Austen and the Women of Her Time, What was the place of women in the early 19th century? (Written in English, scroll down)
• Jane Austen and the French Revolution, 1995, partial Google book
• Jane Austen in Hollywood, Linda Troost, Sayre Greenfield, 2001, partial Google book
• Jane Austen on Film and Television, Sue Parrill, 2002, partial Google book
• Jane Austen on Screen, Gina McDonald, Andrew McDonald, 2003, partial Google book
• Jane Austen, The Parson’s Daughter, Irene Collins, partial Google book
• Jane Austen: Critical Assessments, Ian Littlewood, 1998, partial Google book
• Jane Austen and Her Time, Elen and Jim Moody
• Jane Austen and the Clergy, Irene Collins, 1996
• Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time, Mary Waldron, 2001, partial Google book
• Jane Austen in Context, Janet M. Todd, 2005
• Jane Austen: Obstinate Heart, Valerie Grosvenor Meyer, 1997
• Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds, Oliver MacDonagh, 1991
• Jane Austen’s Art of Memory, Elizabeth Short, 2003, partial Google book
• Jane Austen’s Economics, 20 page PDF document, Financial Page Group
• Jane Austen’s Obsession With Money, Sharon Harvey Rosenberg
• Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers, J. H. & Edith Hubback
• Jane Austen: A Life, David Nokes, Partial Google book
• Jane Austen: Illusion and Reality, Christopher Brooke
• Jane Austen & The Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales, 1996, Partial Book
• Janeites, Deirdre Lynch, 2000, partial Google book
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women, Elbert Hubbard, 1916
• Recreating Jane Austen, John Wiltshire, 2001
• Time Lines Find a variety of time lines pertaining to Jane Austen’s novels, her life, and era
• The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, Edward Copeland, Juliet McMaster, 1997, partial Google book preview
• The Historical Jane Austen, William H. Galperin, 2003, partial Google book
• The Persuasive and Provincial Jane Austen, Sara Wilson
• The Peerage.com: The Knights, Knatchbulls, and the Austens family tree
• Those Elegant Decorums: Discussion of Propriety in Jane Austen’s Novels, Jane Nardin, partial Google book
• Where’s Where in Jane Austen’s Novels, JASNA

Contemporary Novels of Jane Austen’s Era

• Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth, 1800, Project Gutenberg
• The Bracelets, Maria Edgeworth, 1850, Project Gutenberg
• Rosamond: A Series of Tales by Maria Edgeworth, Google, eBooks.
• Moral Tales : Angelina; or L’amie inconnue. The good French governess. Mademoiselle Panache. The knapsack.: In Two Volumes, y Maria Edgeworth, 1834 (Initially published 1801) Google eBook
• Evelina, Fanny Burney, 1778, Google eBook
• The English Spy, Charles Malloy Westmacott, 1825, illustrated (Satiric and humorous, drawn from life)
• The Monk, M.B. Lewis, 1796
• The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Ward Radcliff, 1794
• Waverley, Sir Walter Scott, 1814
• Dr. Birch and His Young Friends, William Makepeace Thackeray (Victorian Era)