Jane Austen: A Literary Life

✍ Scribed by Jan Fergus (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 212
• Series: Macmillan Literary Lives
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Previous biographies have set Jane Austen within her social context. This biography places her firmly within her professional context as one of an increasing number of women who published novels between 1790 and 1820. Being a professional writer was, apart from her family, more important to Austen than anything else in her life.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Conditions of Authorship for Women, 1775–1817....Pages 1-27
Background and Literary Apprenticeship, 1775–1793....Pages 28-68
The Idea of Authorship, 1794–1800....Pages 69-103
The Unpublished Author, 1801–1809....Pages 104-125
The Professional Writer, 1809–1817....Pages 126-172
Back Matter....Pages 173-201

✦ Subjects

Fiction;Early Modern/Renaissance Literature;Nineteenth-Century Literature