Austen, Jane

In Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen defends the novel against critics who dismiss it as frivolous and feminine.

He will likely not have a job, or marry, or get to read Jane Austen.

Mavis Batey—a codebreaker crucial to the success of D-Day, author of book about Jane Austen, and expert gardener—dead at 92.

The small wedding was special even without Jane Austen's ring.

A legendary essay by the late great critic Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is entitled “Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl.”

I had to, to see whether I was awake—or dreaming a Jane Austen dream.

Unquestionably the pleasantest is to fortify the soul with a pot of tea, plenty of tobacco, and a few chapters of Jane Austen.

And they were soon lost to all sense of surroundings as they followed Jane Austen's delightful story.

Goldsmith was one of these, but his prime abhorrence was my dear and honored prime favorite, Jane Austen.

Makes one wonder if in future years the quiet little English woman may not be recognized as a new Jane Austen.