Jane Austen

(1775-1817)

British novelist.


Author's life and works

"Jane Austen" from Literature Online biography

"Jane Austen," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 116: British Romantic Novelists, 1789-1832. 1992.


Pride and Prejudice

"One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it":
The Development of Darcy in Pride and Prejudice by Jennifer Preston Wilson from Persuasions

"Who says she's a bourgeois writer? Reconsidering the social and political contexts of Jane Austen's novels." by J. A. Downie, from
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2006

"Conjecturing possibilities: reading and misreading texts in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice." by Felicia Bonaparte, from Studies in the Novel, 2005

"Elizabeth and Mr. Bennet" by Ivor Morris from Persuasions

"Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Collins, and the Art of Misreading" by Carole Moses from Persuasions


Sense and Sensiblity
Full Text of Sense and Sensibility

"Sense and Sensibility" from Twayne’s English Authors

"Sense and Sensibility: Overview” by
William W. Heath, From Reference Guide to English Literature, 1991.

"Narrative pain and the moral sense: toward an ethics of suffering in the long eighteenth century.” by William H. Wandless, Literature and Medicine, Spring 2005.

“Speaking of Silence: Speech and Silence as a Subversive Means of Power in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility” by Michal Beth Dinkler from Persuasions

"'The Amiable Prejudices of a Young (Writer's) Mind': The Problems of Sense and Sensibility by Joan Klingel Ray.

"Practical wisdom and moral imagination in Sense and Sensibility" by Karen Stohr, Philosophy and Literature,2006.


Mansfield Park

Full Text of Mansfield Park

"The puzzle of Fanny Price." by Joyce L. Jenkins from Philosophy and Literature, 2006.

"Jane Austen and the importance of being wrong. by Mark Canuel from
Studies in Romanticism, 2005.

Author links

Overview from Victorian Web

Journals of the Jane Austen Society of North America

The Austen Quarterly

Austen Links