The British novelist Jane Austen only published four novels during her brief lifetime. Maria EDGEWORTH: Belinda (1801), Northanger Abbey chapter 5.Д®legant Extracts, or useful and entertaining pieces of poetry (1789) compiled by Vicesimus Knox, the essayist: Emma (but Kitty, q.v., is not to be found there).Authors Classic Literature Novel Knowledge Sir William DUGDALE: Persuasion (doubtless The antient usage in bearing of such ensigns of honour as are commonly call'd arms to which is added a catalogue of the present nobility and baronets of England, 1682). (Drury Lane 1795, Covent Garden 1804.)Дelamere: The hero of Charlotte Smith's Emmeline q.v. Richard CUMBERLAND: The Wheel of Fortune, a Comedy Mansfield Park chapter 14. William COWPER: Sense and Sensibility The Sofa quoted Mansfield Park The Winter Evening quoted Emma Tirocinium quoted Mansfield Park 'Truth' ( Poems 1782), quoted Sanditon.Д¬RABBE: Tales (1812) Mansfield Park chapter 16 'Here are Crabbe's Tales and the Idler at hand to relieve you, if you tire of your great book'. 1782, May 1791): The Three Sisters The Belle's Stratagem, Letters 14 Jan. Hannah COWLEY: Which is the Man? (a comedy by Mrs. The Book of Common Prayer: Mansfield Park 'N takes M' quoted from Form of Solemnization of Matrimony in prayer book, Emma, chapter 53. George COLMAN (the younger): The Heir at Law Mansfield Park chapter 14 (Haymarket 1797, Covent Garden 1797, Drury Lane 1808). Thomas CAMPBELL: Pleasures of Hope (1799) quoted Sanditon chapter 7 'Campbell in his Pleasures of Hope has touched the extreme of our Sensations'. 1, 'O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea'). Scott and Lord Byron' The Corsair (1814) quoted ( l. Robert BURNS: his 'Lines to his Mary', Sanditon his 'known Irregularities' (Charlotte Heywood), Sanditon.Д«YRON: The Giaour (1813), The Bride of Abydos (1813), Persuasion chapter 11, comparison of 'Mr. Isaac Hawkins BROWNE (the elder, 1705-60): A Pipe of Tobacco quoted Mansfield Park.ДЇrances BURNEY: Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782) Northanger Abbey, chapter 5, Persuasion Camilla, or a Picture of Youth (1796) Northanger Abbey chapter 5 'It's only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda', Sanditon chapter 6 'She took up a Book it happened to be a volume of Camilla'. Hugh BLAIR: Sermons (1777-1801) Mansfield Park, Catharine Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres alluded to Northanger Abbey. 1809, 1813).ДЄrabian Nights Entertainments: Persuasion, The Three Sisters. The Agricultural Reports: Emma (perhaps General Review of the Agriculture of the County of Surrey by William Stevenson. (But Genest's lists do not seem to be complete.) Performance, and of some others which Miss Austen might possibly have seen or The dates of the performances of plays are taken from Genest'sДЄccount of the English Stage. Letters are enclosed in square brackets they are referred to by in the Letters andДЇragments, as well as those in the Novels.

To make the evidence for Miss Austen's reading complete, I have indexed the INDEX OF LITERARY ALLUSIONS Chapman's notes to his index: Most WWW browsers), while the titles of Jane Austen's own writings (as wellДЄs James Edward Austen-Leigh's 1870 Memoir of Jane Austen and the element (and so will be rendered in italic by Titles of works alluded to by Jane Austen are enclosed in an HTML Works (volume 6), supplemented with some citations from A JaneДЄusten Dictionary by George L. Persuasion (volume 5 of his edition) and the Minor The following index to literary allusions in Jane Austen's writings mainlyД¬omes from the indexes in Chapman's Northanger Abbey and Go to page which has links to on-line verions of some writings referred to by Jane Austen Perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical but that did

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