Novels

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 and Teacher/Student sites.

1. Juvenilia

• E-text
• Audio – History of England
• Audio – Love and Freindship
• A Collection of Juvenile Writings: Molland’s
• The History of England, British Library
• Fashioning the Child Author: Reading Jane Austen’s Juvenilia, Peter Sabor

2. Sense and Sensibility (Published 1811)

• Sense and Sensibility, e-text from Molland’s
• Sense and Sensibility, audio from Librivox
• Sense and Sensibility: All my posts about the novel and its adaptations
• Sense and Sensibility Brock Illustrations from Solitary Elegance
• Jane Austen and the Enclosure Movement: Sense and Sensibility and Land Reform

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

• Pride and Prejudice, E-text from Austen.com
• Pride and Prejudice, Audio from Librivox
• Pride and Prejudice, Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Google book
• Pride and Prejudice Economics: Post on the blog
• Pride and Prejudice: The Individual and Society, JASA
• Inside Pride and Prejudice, John Halperin, JASNA
• Mr. Bennet by Anne Stott
• 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
• A Fine House Richly Furnished: Pemberley and the Visiting of Country Houses
• Pride and Prejudice: Screenplay of the 2005 film
• Pride and Prejudice: Screenplay of the 1995 film

4. Mansfield Park (Published 1814)

• Mansfield Park, e-text from Austen.com
• Mansfield Park, audio from Librivox
• Mansfield Park, blog about the novel
• Mansfield Park: Mary Crawford’s Downfall in Edmund’s Eyes: Post on this blog
• Mansfield Park Brock Illustrations from Solitary Elegance
• 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
• From Mansfield Park to Gosford Park: The English Country House from Austen to Altman

5. Emma (Published 1815)

• Emma, e-text from Austen.com
• Emma, audio from Librivox
• Emma Adaptations: This extensive site is devoted to Emma
• Emma: A Discussion, Fall 2006, Brooklyn Univ
• Emma on Shmoop
• Emma and Clueless: Tranforming Jane Austen, JASA
• Illustrations, Brock: On the Solitary Elegance Website
• The Woodhouse Defense League: Tongue in Cheek site from the Republic of Pemberley
• From Emma to Clueless: Ironic Representations of Jane Austen, PDF doc
• Edward Austen Knight’s Godmersham Library and Jane Austen’s Emma
• Re-reading Box Hill: 5 articles
• Portraits of the Prince Regent in Emma
• Movie Script of Gwynneth Paltrow version

6. Persuasion (Published 1818 )

• Persuasion , e-text from Austen.com
• Persuasion, audio from Librivox
• The Death of a Fiance in Persuasion and the Constant Heart
• Persuasion Brock Illustrations from Solitary Elegance
• 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
• A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Jocelyn Harris, 2007

7. Northanger Abbey (Published 1818 )

• Northanger Abbey, e-text from Molland’s
• Northanger Abbey, Audio from Librivox
• 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
• 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

8. Lady Susan (1793-1794)

• Full Text and Plot Summary, Bibliomania
• Audio, from Librivox
• Calendar for Lady Susan: Ellen Moody
• 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

9. The Watsons (1804)

• Full Text: Molland’s
• A Calendar for and the Characters and Story of 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: Girlebooks ebooks
• Sanditon: Half Topography, Half Romance
• Small Talk on Sanditon
• An Attempt at a Calendar and a List of the Letters in Sanditon

11. Letters

• Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters, A Family Record, William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh, from Molland’s
• 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

12. Poetry

• Jane Austen’s Poems: No dates or sources given

Miscellany

• 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
• 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

• A Jane Austen Encyclopedia, 1998, partial google book
• A Fine Brush of Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen, Richard, Jenkyns, 2004, (first 96 pages)
• Austen’s Ungrateful Niece
• Jane Austen in Context, edited by Janet Todd, 2005, Cambridge University Press, ISBN# 0-521-82644-6
• Jane Austen: A Family Record, Deirdre Le Faye, 2004
• Jane Austen Related Posts: Dregston
• Jane Austen and the Women of Her Time, What was the place of women in the early 19th century?
• Jane Austen’s Siblings and Her Cousin Eliza
• 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
• Jane Austen and Her Time, Elen and Jim Moody
• Jane Austen and the Clergy, Irene Collins, 1996
• Jane Austen: Obstinate Heart, Valerie Grosvenor Meyer, 1997
• Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds, Oliver MacDonagh, 1991
• 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 Book
• Jane Austen: Illusion and Reality, Christopher Brooke
• Jane Austen on Film and Television, Sue Parrill
• Jane Austen & The Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales, 1996, Partial Book
• Placing Jane Austen, Displacing England: Touring Between Book, History and Nation, Mike Crang
• Time Lines Find a variety of time lines pertaining to Jane Austen’s novels, her life, and era
• 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