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Jane Austen

Index Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. [1]

141 relations: A Memoir of Jane Austen, A. C. Bradley, A. Walton Litz, Academy Awards, Addison's disease, All Souls College, Oxford, Ang Lee, Ann Radcliffe, Archive, Assembly rooms, Baron Leigh, Barrister, Basingstoke, Bath, Somerset, Benefice, Bon Ton (play), C-SPAN, Cassandra Austen, Catherine, or The Bower, Charles Austen, Charles Dickens, Chawton, Chawton House, Church of England, Church of St Swithin, Bath, Claire Tomalin, Clara Reeve, Colin Firth, David Garrick, David Nokes, David Starkey, Deane, Hampshire, Deirdre Le Faye, Edward Austen Knight, Eliza de Feuillide, Emma (novel), Emma Thompson, Epistolary novel, F. R. Leavis, Félix Fénéon, Feminist theory, Foul papers, Francis Austen, Free indirect speech, George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, George IV of the United Kingdom, Godmersham Park, Gothic fiction, Greer Garson, ..., Hampshire, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Henry Fielding, Henry James, Henry Thomas Austen, Hodgkin's lymphoma, Homer, Horace Walpole, Ian Watt, Isabelle de Montolieu, ITV (TV network), James Stanier Clarke, Jane Austen's family and ancestry, Janeite, Janet Todd, Jennifer Ehle, Joe Wright, John Murray (publisher), Keira Knightley, Lady Susan, Landed gentry, Laurence Olivier, Laurence Sterne, Leslie Stephen, Love & Friendship, Love and Freindship, Lyrical Ballads, Mansfield Park, Mansfield Park (2007 film), Mary Lascelles, Matthew Macfadyen, Miguel de Cervantes, Narration, Northanger Abbey, Northanger Abbey (2007 film), Oliver Goldsmith, Oxford, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, Parish, Park Honan, Paula Byrne, Persuasion (2007 film), Persuasion (novel), Philarète Chasles, Plan of a Novel, according to Hints from Various Quarters, Postcolonialism, Pride & Prejudice (2005 film), Pride and Prejudice, Pride and Prejudice (1940 film), Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series), Reading Abbey Girls' School, Reading, Berkshire, Rector (ecclesiastical), Restoration comedy, Retrospective diagnosis, Rheumatism, Richard Bentley (publisher), Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Richard Whately, Romanticism, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Sanditon, Sense and Sensibility, Sense and Sensibility (film), Sentimental novel, Softcore pornography, Southampton, St John's College, Oxford, Steventon, Hampshire, Susan Gubar, The Beautifull Cassandra, The History of England (Austen), The History of Sir Charles Grandison, The Madwoman in the Attic, The Rivals, The Watsons, Thomas Cadell (publisher), Thomas Egerton (publisher), Thomas Langlois Lefroy, Tobias Smollett, Typhus, Victorian literature, Walter Scott, Warren Hastings, Wet nurse, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Winchester, Winchester Cathedral, Worthing. Expand index (91 more) »

A Memoir of Jane Austen

A Memoir of Jane Austen is a biography of the novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) published in 1869 by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh.

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A. C. Bradley

Andrew Cecil Bradley, FBA (26 March 1851 – 2 September 1935) was an English literary scholar, best remembered for his work on Shakespeare.

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A. Walton Litz

Arthur Walton Litz, Jr., born on October 31, 1929, in Nashville, Tennessee,, died on June 4, 2014, was an American literary historian and critic who served as professor of English Literature at Princeton University from 1956 to 1993.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Addison's disease

Addison's disease, also known as primary adrenal insufficiency and hypocortisolism, is a long-term endocrine disorder in which the adrenal glands do not produce enough steroid hormones.

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All Souls College, Oxford

All Souls College (official name: College of the souls of all the faithful departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Ang Lee

Ang Lee OBS (born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese film director and screenwriter.

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Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe (born Ward, 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel.

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Archive

An archive is an accumulation of historical records or the physical place they are located.

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Assembly rooms

In Great Britain and Ireland, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, assembly rooms were gathering places for members of the higher social classes open to members of both sexes.

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Baron Leigh

Baron Leigh has been created twice as an hereditary title, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Barrister

A barrister (also known as barrister-at-law or bar-at-law) is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions.

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Basingstoke

Basingstoke is the largest town in the modern county of Hampshire (Southampton and Portsmouth being cities.) It is situated in south central England, and lies across a valley at the source of the River Loddon.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths.

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Benefice

A benefice or living is a reward received in exchange for services rendered and as a retainer for future services.

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Bon Ton (play)

Bon Ton; or, High Life About Stairs is a comedy act in two acts by David Garrick, first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 18 March 1775.

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C-SPAN

C-SPAN, an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable and satellite television network that was created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service.

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Cassandra Austen

Cassandra Elizabeth Austen (9 January 1773 – 22 March 1845" ". (n.d.) Jane Austen Centre Magazine. Retrieved 31 December 2006.) was an amateur English watercolourist and the elder sister of Jane Austen.

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Catherine, or The Bower

Catherine, or the Bower (Kitty, or the Bower) is an unfinished novel from Jane Austen's juvenilia.

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Charles Austen

Rear Admiral Charles John Austen CB (23 June 1779 – 7 October 1852) was an officer in the Royal Navy.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Chawton

Chawton is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England.

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Chawton House

Chawton House is a grade ll* listed Elizabethan manor house in the village of Chawton in Hampshire.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Church of St Swithin, Bath

The Anglican Church of St Swithin on The Paragon in the Walcot area of Bath, England, was built between 1777 and 1790.

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Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin (born Claire Delavenay on 20 June 1933) is an English author and journalist, known for her biographies on Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

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Clara Reeve

Clara Reeve (23 January 1729 – 3 December 1807) was an English novelist, best known for her Gothic novel The Old English Baron (1777).

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Colin Firth

Colin Andrew Firth, (born 10 September 1960), is an English actor who has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival.

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David Garrick

David Garrick (19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson.

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David Nokes

David Nokes FRSL (March 11, 1948 - November 19, 2009) was a scholar of 18th-century English literature known for his biographies of Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson.

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David Starkey

David Robert StarkeyStarkey had his middle name in 1986 when he stood for election but it was not mentioned when he was awarded his CBE in 2007.

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Deane, Hampshire

Deane is a village and civil parish in the county of Hampshire, England.

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Deirdre Le Faye

Deirdre Le Faye is an English writer and literary critic.

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Edward Austen Knight

Edward Austen Knight (7 October 1768 – 19 November 1852), born Edward Austen, was the third eldest brother of Jane Austen, and provided her with the use of a cottage in Chawton where she lived for the last years of her life.

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Eliza de Feuillide

Eliza, Comtesse de Feuillide (née Hancock; 22 December 1761 – 25 April 1813) was the cousin, and later sister-in-law, of novelist Jane Austen.

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Emma (novel)

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance.

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Emma Thompson

Dame Emma Thompson, DBE (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter.

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Epistolary novel

An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents.

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F. R. Leavis

Frank Raymond "F.

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Félix Fénéon

Félix Fénéon (22 June 1861, Turin, Italy – 29 February 1944, Châtenay-Malabry) was a Parisian anarchist and art critic during the late 19th century.

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Feminist theory

Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse.

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Foul papers

Foul papers are an author's working drafts.

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Francis Austen

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Francis William Austen, (23 April 1774 – 10 August 1865) was a Royal Navy officer.

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Free indirect speech

Free indirect speech is a style of third-person narration which uses some of the characteristics of third-person along with the essence of first-person direct speech; it is also referred to as free indirect discourse, free indirect style, or, in French, discours indirect libre.

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George Eliot

Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Ann" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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George Henry Lewes

George Henry Lewes (18 April 1817 – 30 November 1878) was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre.

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George IV of the United Kingdom

George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover following the death of his father, King George III, on 29 January 1820, until his own death ten years later.

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Godmersham Park

Godmersham Park is a Grade I listed house in Godmersham, Kent, United Kingdom, on the edge of the North Downs between Ashford and Canterbury.

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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance.

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Greer Garson

Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson, CBE (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996), was a British-American actress popular during the Second World War, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top-ten box office draws from 1942 to 1946.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.

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Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer (February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode) on hermeneutics.

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the picaresque novel Tom Jones.

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Henry James

Henry James, OM (–) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

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Henry Thomas Austen

Henry Thomas Austen (1771 – 12 March 1850) was a militia officer, clergyman, banker and the brother of the novelist Jane Austen.

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Hodgkin's lymphoma

Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) is a type of lymphoma which is generally believed to result from white blood cells of the lymphocyte kind.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.

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Horace Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.

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Ian Watt

Ian Watt (9 March 1917 – 13 December 1999) was a literary critic, literary historian and professor of English at Stanford University.

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Isabelle de Montolieu

Isabelle de Montolieu (1751–1832) was a Swiss novelist and translator.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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James Stanier Clarke

James Stanier Clarke (1766–1834) was an English cleric, naval author and man of letters.

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Jane Austen's family and ancestry

Jane Austen's parents, George (1731–1805), an Anglican rector, and his wife Cassandra (1739–1827), shared a gentry background.

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Janeite

The term Janeite has been both embraced by devotees of the works of Jane Austen and used as a term of opprobrium.

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Janet Todd

Janet Margaret Todd (born 10 September 1942) is a British academic and author.

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Jennifer Ehle

Jennifer Anne Ehle (born December 29, 1969) is an American actress.

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Joe Wright

Joseph "Joe" Wright (born 25 August 1972) is an English film director.

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John Murray (publisher)

John Murray is a British publisher, known for the authors it has published in its history, including Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, and Charles Darwin.

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Keira Knightley

Keira Christina Knightley, OBE (born 26 March 1985) is an English actress.

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Lady Susan

Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871.

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Landed gentry

Landed gentry or gentry is a largely historical British social class consisting in theory of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least had a country estate.

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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman.

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Leslie Stephen

Sir Leslie Stephen (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, and mountaineer, and father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

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Love & Friendship

Love & Friendship is a 2016 period comedy film written and directed by Whit Stillman.

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Love and Freindship

is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790.

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Lyrical Ballads

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature.

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Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1814.

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Mansfield Park (2007 film)

Mansfield Park is a 2007 British television film directed by Iain B. MacDonald and starring Billie Piper, Michelle Ryan, and Blake Ritson.

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Mary Lascelles

Mary Madge Lascelles, FBA (7 February 1900 – 10 December 1995) was a British literary scholar, specialising in Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, and Walter Scott.

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Matthew Macfadyen

David Matthew Macfadyen (born 17 October 1974) is an English actor.

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Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 (assumed)23 April 1616 NS) was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.

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Narration

Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience.

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Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, in 1803.

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Northanger Abbey (2007 film)

Northanger Abbey is a 2007 British television film adaptation of Jane Austen's eponymous novel.

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Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773).

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740.

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Parish

A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.

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Park Honan

Leonard Hobart Park Honan (17 September 1928 – 27 September 2014) was an American academic and author who spent most of his career in the UK.

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Paula Byrne

Paula Byrne, Lady Bate, (born 1967), is a British author and biographer.

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Persuasion (2007 film)

Persuasion is a 2007 British television film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Persuasion.

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Persuasion (novel)

Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen.

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Philarète Chasles

Victor Euphemien Philarète Chasles (8 October 1798 – 18 July 1873) was a French critic and man of letters.

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Plan of a Novel, according to Hints from Various Quarters

Plan of a Novel, according to Hints from Various Quarters is a short satirical work by Jane Austen, probably written in May 1816.

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Postcolonialism

Postcolonialism or postcolonial studies is the academic study of the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the human consequences of the control and exploitation of colonised people and their lands.

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Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)

Pride & Prejudice is a 2005 romantic drama film directed by Joe Wright and based on Jane Austen's 1813 novel of the same name.

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Pride and Prejudice

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

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Pride and Prejudice (1940 film)

Pride and Prejudice is a 1940 American film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier.

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Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series)

Pride and Prejudice is a six-episode 1995 British television drama, adapted by Andrew Davies from Jane Austen's 1813 novel of the same name.

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Reading Abbey Girls' School

Reading Abbey Girls' School, or iterations of this establishment under similar names, achieved notability in the nineteenth century.

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Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a large, historically important minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Rector (ecclesiastical)

A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations.

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Restoration comedy

The term "Restoration comedy" refers to English comedies written and performed in the Restoration period from 1660 to 1710.

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Retrospective diagnosis

A retrospective diagnosis (also retrodiagnosis or posthumous diagnosis) is the practice of identifying an illness after the death of the patient (sometimes in a historical figure) using modern knowledge, methods and disease classifications.

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Rheumatism

Rheumatism or rheumatic disorder is an umbrella term for conditions causing chronic, often intermittent pain affecting the joints and/or connective tissue.

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Richard Bentley (publisher)

Richard Bentley (24 October 1794 – 10 September 1871) was a 19th-century English publisher born into a publishing family.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a playwright and poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

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Richard Whately

Richard Whately (1 February 1787 – 8 October 1863) was an English rhetorician, logician, economist, academic and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.

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Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson (19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an 18th-century English writer and printer.

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Sanditon

Sanditon (1817) is an unfinished novel by the English writer Jane Austen.

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Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811.

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Sense and Sensibility (film)

Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 American period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name.

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Sentimental novel

The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an 18th-century literary genre which celebrates the emotional and intellectual concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism, and sensibility.

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Softcore pornography

Softcore pornography or softcore porn is commercial still photography or film that has a pornographic or erotic component.

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Southampton

Southampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.

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St John's College, Oxford

St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford.

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Steventon, Hampshire

Steventon is a rural village with a population of about 250 in north Hampshire, England.

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Susan Gubar

Susan D. Gubar (born November 30, 1944) is an American author and distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Indiana University.

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The Beautifull Cassandra

is a short novel from Jane Austen's juvenilia.

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The History of England (Austen)

The History of England is a 1791 work by Jane Austen, written when the author was fifteen.

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The History of Sir Charles Grandison

The History of Sir Charles Grandison, commonly called Sir Charles Grandison, is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson first published in February 1753.

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The Madwoman in the Attic

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination is a 1979 book by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, in which they examine Victorian literature from a feminist perspective.

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The Rivals

The Rivals is a comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in five acts which was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre on 17 January 1775.

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The Watsons

The Watsons is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen.

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Thomas Cadell (publisher)

Thomas Cadell (1742–1802) was a successful 18th-century English bookseller who published works by some of the most famous writers of the 18th century.

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Thomas Egerton (publisher)

Thomas Egerton was a bookseller and publisher in London ca.1784–1830.

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Thomas Langlois Lefroy

Thomas Langlois Lefroy (8 January 1776 – 4 May 1869) was an Irish-Huguenot politician and judge.

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Tobias Smollett

Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author.

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Typhus

Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus and murine typhus.

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Victorian literature

Victorian literature is literature, mainly written in English, during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901) (the Victorian era).

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian.

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Warren Hastings

Warren Hastings (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818), an English statesman, was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de facto Governor-General of India from 1773 to 1785.

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Wet nurse

A wet nurse is a woman who breast feeds and cares for another's child.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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Winchester

Winchester is a city and the county town of Hampshire, England.

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Winchester Cathedral

Winchester Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in Winchester, Hampshire, England.

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Worthing

Worthing is a large seaside town in England, with borough status in West Sussex.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen

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