ENGL 8540: Jane Austen

Research guide on Austen, her works, and her legacy in print and digital forms.

Novels - First Editions

The Loiterer: A Periodical Work, in Two Volumes. First Published at Oxford in the Years 1789 and 1790
Edited, and chiefly written, by James Austen, with contributions by Henry Austen, brothers of Jane Austen, while they were students at Oxford..
A New Collection of Enigmas, Charades, Transpositions, &C (1810)
Contains two of the riddles included in Jane Austen's "Emma."
Pen-portraits of Literary Women, by Themselves and Others (2 vols, 1887)
Hannah More. Frances Burney (Mme. D'Arblay) Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Mary W. Godwin (Shelley) Mary Lamb. Maria Edgeworth. Jane Austen. Joanna Baillie. Lady Blessington. Mary Russell Mitford. Harriet Martineau, Aurore Dudevant (George Sand) Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Margaret Fuller (Ossoli) Charlotte Brontë. Emily Brontë. Marian Evans Cross (George Eliot)
Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women (1897)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Madame Guyon, Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Rosa Bonheur, Madame de Staël, Elizabeth Fry, Mary Lamb, Jane Austen, Empress Josephine,
Mary W. Shelley.
Plan of a Novel According to Hints From Various Quarters (1926)
by Jane Austen; with opinions on Mansfield Park and Emma, collected and transcribed by her and other documents printed from the originals now in the Pierpont Morgan Library and the British Museum.