Novels

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

• 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
• Edgar and Emma, by Jane Austen, Jane Austen Centre Online Magazine
• Lesley Castle
• Minor Works: Jane Austen’s Juvenilia, Jane Austen Centre Online Magazine
• 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
• Fashioning the Child Author: Reading Jane Austen’s Juvenilia, Peter Sabor
• 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)

• 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
• Sense and Sensibility Brock Illustrations from Solitary Elegance
• Jane Austen and the Enclosure Movement: Sense and Sensibility and Land Reform
• 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
• 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
• Movie Transcript of 1996 Sense and Sensibility

3. Pride and Prejudice (Revised 1812; Published 1813)

• 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 Hugh Thomson, Google book
• Pride and Prejudice, Illustrated by C.E. Brock, 1901, Google Book
• Pride and Prejudice Economics: Post on the blog
• Jane Austen Meets Carl Jung: Pride, Prejudice, and Personality Theory, Jenny Rytting
• Pride and Prejudice: The Individual and Society, JASA
• Inside Pride and Prejudice, John Halperin, JASNA
• Mr. Bennet by Anne Stott
• 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
• Musings on Pride and Prejudice, a blog dedicated to the novel
• Pride and Prejudice Brock watercolour illustrations on Molland’s
• Pride and Prejudice: An Overview
• Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: Library and Internet Resources
• Pride and Prejudice Play Guide: Study Guide
• Pride and Prejudice on Shmoop
• Pride and Prejudice: Free script of the 1940 movie
• Pride and Prejudice: Dialogue script of the 1995 miniseries.
• Pride and Prejudice: A One Act Play, Script
• 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
• On Pettiness and Petticoats: The Significance of Petticoats in Pride and Prejudice, Efrat Margalit
• The Real Mrs. Bennet? PDF document, Jane Austen’s World Magazine
• 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)

• 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 from Solitary Elegance
• 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
• Moral Ambiguity in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
• From Mansfield Park to Gosford Park: The English Country House from Austen to Altman
• 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)

• 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
• Emma on Shmoop
• Emma and Clueless: Tranforming Jane Austen, JASA
• Emma as a Masquerade: Womanliness and Power in Jane Austen’s Emma
• Figure and Ground: The Receding Heroine in Jane Austen’s Emma, partial article, JSTOR
• Illustrations, Brock: On the Solitary Elegance Website
• 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 )

• 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 Brock Illustrations from Solitary Elegance
• Persuasion, digitized Google book, with Brock illustrations
• Persuasion, Brock Illustrations
• Persuasion Cryptograms
• Persuasion on Shmoop
• 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
• Enlightenment Ideas in Persuasion, Wynn Murray
• The Byronic In Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice (Lord George Gordon Byron), Sarah Wootton
• 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
• Dance, physicality, and social mobility in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
• Admiral Croft and His Gig: Jane Austen’s Persuasion
• Why Lyme Regis? Peter Graham
• Jane Austen Persuasion: PPT by Linda Bree
• 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 )

• 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 Adaptations: Extensive lists of NA movie, stage, and screenplay adaptations from Solitary Elegance
• Northanger Abbey Brock Illustrations from Solitary Elegance
• Northanger Abbey, digitized 1915 book with Brock illustrations
• Ellen Moody’s post about 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 Movie
• Persuasions, 2010. Articles about “The Abbey”

8. Lady Susan (1793-1794)

• Full Text and Plot Summary, Bibliomania
• Lady Susan, Facsimile, Morgan Library
• 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)

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

10. Sanditon (Novel fragment, 1817)

• 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

• A Collection of  Letters, by Jane Austen
• Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters, A Family Record, William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh, from Molland’s
• Jane’s Draft Letter to Her Publisher, 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
• Following the Trail of Jane Austen’s Letters, Barbara Britton Wenner
• Morgan Library, Jane Austen letters and images

12. Poetry

• 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

• Prayer One
• Prayer Two
• Prayer Three

Literary Criticism about Jane Austen

• 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

• A Changing View: Jane Austen’s Landscape
• A Companion to Jane Austen Studies, Laura Cooner Lambdin, Robert Thomas Lambdin, 2000, partial Google book
• A Jane Austen Encyclopedia, 1998
• Austen: posts about Jane Austen by 18th-century scholar Ellen Moody
• Daily Lit Blog: Arrange to have several paragraphs a day of a Jane Austen novel sent to your email inbox or cell phone.
• Jane Austen: the critical heritage, B.C. Southam, 2006
• 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
• Timeline of Jane Austen’s Life and Publication of her Work
• 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

From the History Section: Jane Austen – Biography

• 101 Things You Didn’t Know About Jane Austen, Patrice Hannon, 2007, partial Google book
• A Century of Wills from Jane Austen’s Family, 1705-1806 JASA
• A Jane Austen Encyclopedia, 1998, partial Google book
• 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
• 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
• Jane Austen and the Wars, the Loiterer
• Jane Austen’s Brothers, Jane Austen Centre Magazine
• Jane Austen’s Family. JASA
• Jane Austen’s Novels: The Art of Clarity,  Roger Gard, 1994, partial Google book
• 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?
• 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: The World of Her Novels,Deirdre Le Faye, 2002 (Only select portions of this book are available in this link.)
• 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 Obsession With Money, Sharon Harvey Rosenberg
• Jane Austen’s Economics, 20 page PDF document, Financial Page Group
• Jane Austen: A Life, David Nokes, Partial Google book
• Jane Austen: Illusion and Reality, Christopher Brooke
• Jane Austen’s Handwriting Analyzed
• 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
• Placing Jane Austen, Displacing England: Touring Between Book, History and Nation, Mike Crang
• Recreating Jane Austen, John Wiltshire, 2001
• Soft and Loud: Jane Austen and the Pianoforte
• 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
• The Historical Jane Austen, William H. Galperin, 2003, partial Google book
• The Persuasive and Provincial Jane Austen, Sara Wilson
• The American Society of Jane Austen Scholars Home Page
• 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