Mansfield Park
Jane Austen, Jane Stabler, and James Kinsley (ed.)
‘Me!’ cried Fanny … ‘Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act.’ At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of ...
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon
Jane Austen, Claudia L. Johnson, John Davie (ed.), and James Kinsley (ed.)
‘… in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty.’ Northanger Abbey is about the ...
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Persuasion
Jane Austen, Deidre Shauna Lynch, and James Kinsley (ed.)
‘She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.’ Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present ...
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Pride and Prejudice (3 ed.)
Jane Austen, Christina Lupton, and James Kinsley (ed.)
‘He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention’. Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay ...
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Sense and Sensibility (3 ed.)
Jane Austen and John Mullan (ed.)
‘Pray, pray be composed,’ cried Elinor, ‘and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.’ For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her ...
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Teenage Writings
Jane Austen, Kathryn Sutherland (ed.), and Freya Johnston (ed.)
‘Jane Austen practising’ Virginia Woolf Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive. The earliest pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or ...
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