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Jane Austen

Female : Novelist. Spent first 25 years at father's Hampshire vicarage. Unmarried. Possibly died of Addison's Disease
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Steventon, Nr Basingstoke, Hampshire

Date of Birth : 1775 Date of Death : 1817 Age : 42

Education : Home educated
Sense and Sensibility (1811 at the Military Library, Whitehall by T Egerton) - 3 vols
(1813 T Egerton. 2nd Ed) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £3940
(1833 Carey & Lea, Philadelphia) - 2 vols
[Filmed in 1995]
Pride and Prejudice
(1813 at the Military Library, Whitehall by T Egerton) - 3 vols
[In 2000 sold for £48.000 at Sotheby's & in 2002 for £40.000 in Edinburgh]
[Filmed in 1940]
Mansfield Park : A Novel
(1814 at the Military Library, Whitehall by T Egerton) - 3 vols
[Sold at auction in 2004 for £5760]
[It is said that these three novels only made £700 profit in Austen's lifetime]
[Filmed in 1999]
Emma : A Novel
(1816 John Murray) - 3 vols
[ALL THE ABOVE WERE PUBLISHED ANONYMOUSLY IN HER LIFETIME]
[Filmed in 1996]
Northanger Abbey
(written in 1798) and Persuasion (1818 John Murray) - 4 vols
[THE ABOVE WAS PUBLISHED IMMEDIATELY AFTER HER DEATH WHEN HER NAME WAS REVEALED]
["Persuasion" was filmed in 1995]

MORE RECENT EDITIONS
Sense and Sensibility
1833 Bentley, London. Standard Novels Series
1896 Macmillan : Hugh Thomson
1899 George Allen : Chris Hammond
1908 Dent : C E Brock
1939 Nelson : Bessie Darling Inglis
1949 Avalon Press : Blair Hughes-Stanton
1957 Ltd Eds Club, NY : 1500. Helen Sewell
1958 Macdonald : Philip Gough
1958 Folio Society : Joan Hassall

Pride and Prejudice
1894 George Allen : Hugh Thomson
1895 Macmillan : C E Brock
1929 Peter Davies : Vera Willoughby
1938 Penguin Illustrated Classics : Helen Binyon
1940 Ltd Eds Club, NY - 1500 signed by Helen Sewell
1949 Avalon Press - B Gordon Smith
1951 Macdonald : Philip Gough
1958 Folio Society : Joan Hassall
1980 World's Work : Lynette Hemmant

Mansfield Park
1897 Macmillan : Hugh Thomson
1908 Dent : C E Brock
1957 Macdonald : Philip Gough
1959 Folio Society : Joan Hassall

Emma
1849 Simms & M'Intyre - The Parlour Library
1896 Macmillan : Hugh Thomson
1898 George Allen : Chris Hammond
1909 Dent : C E Brock
1948 Macdonald : Philip Gough
1962 Folio Society : Joan Hassall
1964 Ltd Eds Club, NY - Fritz Kredel

Northanger Abbey
1833 Bentley Standard Novels - with Persuasion
1897 Macmillan : Hugh Thomson Includes Persuasion
1907 Dent : C E Brock
1948 Avalon Press : Robert Austin
1960 Folio Society : Joan Hassall
1961 Macdonald : Philip Gough
1971 Ltd Editions Club, NY - 1500 signed by Clarke Hutton

Persuasion
1909 Dent : C E Brock
1928 Gerald Howe : Pearl Binder
1946 Avalon Press : John Austen
1961 Macdonald : Philip Gough
1961 Folio Society : Joan Hassall
1977 Ltd Editions Club, NY - Tony Buonpastore

COLLECTED EDITIONS
1833 Bentley Edition - 5 vols
1882 Staverton Edition
(Bentley) - 6 vols
1892 Dent Edition - 11 vols
1898 Winchester Edition
(Grant Richards) - 10 vols.
1899 Temple Edition
(Dent) - 10 vols
1902 Hampshire Edition
(Johnson) - 6 vols (1914 Frank S Holtby, NY - 12 vols. 1250)
1906 Illustrated Cabinet Edition
(Dana Estes, Boston) - 12 vols. Hugh Thomson
1911-12 Winchester Edition
(Edinburgh) - 12 vols. C E & H M Brock
1923 Oxford Edition
(Clarendon Press) - 5 vols
1923 Oxford Edition
(1923 Clarendon Press) - 5 vols. Large Paper. Ltd Ed 1000
1923 Adelphi Edition
(Martin Secker) - 7 vols
1923 Georgian edition
(OUP) - 5 vols
1923 Chapman Edition
(OUP) - 5 vols
The Novels of Jane Austen
(1925 Harrap) - 10 vols. A Wallis Mills
The Works
(1957-75 Folio Society) - 7 vols. Joan Hassall

MISCELLANEOUS
J E Austen-Leigh - A Memoir
(1870 Mathews & Marot)
The Watsons
(1871 M & M) (1923 Leonard Parsons)
The Letters of ...
(1884 R Bentley) - in 2 vols. edited by Edward, Lord Brabourne
The Novels and Letters
(Ed by R Brimley Johnson) (1915 NY) - C E & H M Brock
Five Letters from Jane Austen to Her Niece, Fanny Knight
(1924 Clarendon Press) - facsimile
Fragment on a Novel - Sanditon
(1925 OUP) Edited by R W Chapman
Lady Susan
(1925 OUP)
Two Chapters from Persuasion
(1926 OUP)
Plan of a Novel, According to Hints from Various Quarters
(1926 Clarendon Press)
The Letters to Her Sister Cassandra & Others
(1932 OUP) - 2 vols. Edited by R W Chapman
Sanditon, A Facsimile of the Manuscript
(1975 OUP) Edited by B C Southam
Sanditon by Jane Austen and 'Another Lady'
(Marie Dobbs) (1975 Peter Davies £3.50)
Jane Austen's 'Sir Charles Grandison'
(1980 OUP)

JUVENILIA
Charades
(1895 Spottiswoode & Co)
Love and Friendship & Other Early Works
(1922 Chatto & Windus)
Volume the First
(1933 OUP)
Three Evening Prayers
(1940 Colt Press, SF)
Volume the Third
(1951 OUP)
Jane Austen's Sir Charles Grandison
(1980 OUP)

READING
1870-1900
J E Austen-Leigh : A Memoir of Jane Austen
(1870 Bentley) (1871 Bentley 2nd Ed)
Goldwin Smith : Life of Jane Austen
(1890 Walter Scott)
W H Pollock : Jane Austen - Her Contemporaries & Herself
(1899 Longmans)

1901-1950
William and Richard Austen-Leigh : Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters
(1913)
F W Cornish : Jane Austen
(1913 Macmillan)
(Ed) R W Chapman : The Letters of Jane Austen
M A Austen-Leigh : Personal Aspects of Jane Austen
(1920 Murray)
Sir Geoffrey Keynes : Jane Austen - A Bibliography
(1929 Nonesuch Press) - 875
Mary Lascelles : Jane Austen - Her Mind and Art
(1939 Clarendon Press)
R W CHapman : Jane Austen - Facts and Problems
(1948 Clarendon Press)

1951-1980
Caroline Austen : My Aunt, Jane Austen
(1952 Jane Austen Society)
(Ed) B C Southam : Jane Austen - The Critical Heritage (1968 & 1987) - 2 vols
Kingsley Amis : What Became of Jane Austen ? and Other Questions
(1970 Cape)
Constance Pilgrim : Dear Jane
(1971)
Yasmine Gooneratne : Jane Austen
(1971 Cambridge UP £2.20)
Jane Aiken Hodge : The Double Life of Jane Austen
(1972)
Marilyn Butler : Jane Austen and the War of Ideas
(1975) (1984)
Joan Rees : Jane Austen - Woman and Writer
(1976 St Martin's Press, Robert Hale)
Lord David Cecil : A Portrait of Jane Austen
(1978 Constable)
Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar : The Madwoman in the Attic
(1979)

Since 1981
John Oldmark : An Understanding of Jane Austen's Novels - Character, Value & Ironic Perspective
(1981 Blackwell)
David Gilson : Jane Austen - A Bibliography
(1982)
Margaret Kirkham : Jane Austen - Feminism and Fiction
(1983)
Tony Janner : Jane Austen
(1986)
Park Honan : Jane Austen - Her Life
(1987)
John Halpern : The Life of Jane Austen
(1988)
Emma Tennant : Pemberley
(1993 H & S)
Emma Tennant : An Unequal Marriage
(1994 Sceptre £9.99)
David Nokes : Jane Austen - A Life
(1997 Fourth Estate £20)
Audrey Hawkridge : Jane and Her Gentlemen - Jane Austen and the Men in Her Life & Novels
(2000 Peter Owen)
Paula Byrne : Jane Austen and the Theatre
(2002 Hambledon £25)
Penny Gay : Jane Austen and the Theatre
(2002 CUP £37.50)
Josephine Ross : Jane Austen - A Companion
(2002 John Murray £16.99)