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Ashton Dennis and Eckstut Arielle
Pride and Promiscuity: the Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen
Reviewed by Elsa Solender, immediate past President, JASNA

Austen Leigh, James Edward
A Memoir of Jane Austen
by   1870/1989
Austen, Henry
Biographical Notice of the Author
1818 
Reviewed by Amanda Jones

Austen-Leigh, W, Austen-Leigh W and  Le Faye, Deidre
Jane Austen: A Family Record
1989
Reviewed by Susannah Fullerton

Austen, Jane
Jane Austen’s Lesley Castle
Edited by Jan Fergus
Reviewed by Michelle Morgan

Barca Margaret, editor
Advice to a Young Lady in the Colonies
Reviewed by Meghan Hayward, secretary JASA

B

Barton, Helen
The Jane Austen Quiz Book
Reviewed by Meghan Hayward

Biro, Dr George & Leavesley, Dr Jim
What Killed Jane Austen?
Reviewed by Geoff Johnson

Byrde Penelope
Jane Austen Fashion ~ Fashion & Needlework in the Works of Jane Austen
Reviewed by Marlene Arditto

C

Cecil, Lord David
A Portrait of Jane Austen
1978
Reviewed by Marjorie Jones

Collins, Irene
Jane Austen: The Parson’s Daughter
1998
(a) Reviewed by Anne Harbers

Collins, Irene
Jane Austen: The Parson's Daughter
(b) Reviewed by Bertha McKenzie

D

Dawkins, Jane
Letters from Pemberley
Reviewed by Sue Lack

Druett, Joan 
Hen Frigates: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea
Reviewed by Meghan Hayward

E

Eckstut Arielle and Ashton Dennis
Pride and Promiscuity: the Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen
Reviewed by Elsa Solender, immediate past President, JASNA

F

Fergus, Jan (Ed.)
Jane Austen’s Lesley Castle
Reviewed by Michelle Morgan

Fforde, Jasper 
The Eyre Affair
2001
Reviewed by Marjorie Jones

Fritzer, Penelope Joan
Jane Austen and Eighteenth Century Courtesy Books
Reviewed by Audrey Keown

Fullerton, Susannah  & Harbers, Anne (Eds)
Jane Austen: Antipodean Views
Reviewed by Pamela Whalan

G

Gay, Penny 
Jane Austen and the Theatre
2002
Reviewed by Pamela Whalan

Greenfield, Sayre & Troost, Linda (eds)
Jane Austen in Hollywood
Reviewed by Robyn Williams

H

Harbers, Anne &  Fullerton, Susannah (Eds)
Jane Austen: Antipodean Views
Reviewed by Pamela Whalan

Harding, D.W.
Regulated Hatred and Other Essays on Jane Austen
1998
Reviewed by Jon Spence

Harrison Peter
 The Jane Austen Collection (CD)
Reviewed by Kath Holmes

Hawkridge, Audrey
Jane and Her Gentlemen: Jane Austen and the Men in her Life and Novels
Reviewed by Julie Sparks

Honan, Park
Jane Austen: Her Life
2nd edition 1987
Reviewed by Andrea Richards

# Hudson Glenda A
Sibling Love & Incest in Jane Austen’s Fiction  
Reviewed by Amanda Jones

J

Jenkins, Elizabeth
Jane Austen: A Biography
1938/1972/1986
Reviewed by Yvette Field

Johnson, Claudia
Fair Maid of Kent (the Rice portrait revisited)
Reviewed by Pamela Nutt

K

Kerrigan, Michael (ed)
The Wit And Wisdom Of Jane Austen
1996
Reviewed by Annette Harmon

Kirkham, Margaret
Jane Austen, Feminism & Fiction
Reviewed by Amanda Jones

L

Lane, Maggie
A City of Palaces: Bath through the Eyes of Fanny Burney
Reviewed by Jim Priddice

Lane, Maggie
Jane Austen and Lyme Regis
Reviewed by Pamela Nutt

Lane, Maggie
Jane Austen's Family Through Five Generations
Reviewed by Yvette Field

Lane, Maggie
Jane Austen’s World
Reviewed by Marjorie Jones

Le Faye, Deirdre
Fanny Knight ‘s Diaries:Jane Austen through her Niece’s Eyes
Reviewed by Sheila Edwards

Le Faye, Deirdre
Jane Austen
British Library series Writers' Lives
Greenwood Press Connecticut, 1998
Reviewed by Yasmine Gooneratne

Le Faye, Deirdre, Austen-Leigh W, and  Austen-Leigh W  
Jane Austen: A Family Record
1989
Reviewed by Susannah Fullerton

Le Faye, Deirdre 
Jane Austen’s ‘Outlandish Cousin’: The Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide 
2002
Reviewed by Joan Lucas

#Lynch, Deirdre (Ed)
Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees
Reviewed by Maggie Lane & by #Robyn Williams

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Martin, Joanna (ed.)
A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals & Letters of Agnes Porter
Reviewed by Freda Mullaly

McMaster, Juliet, & Copeland, Edward (Eds)
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen
Reviewed by Yvette Field

McMaster, Juliet, & others (Eds)
A Collection of Letters by Jane Austen  
Reviewed by Judy Greenaway

Morris, Ivor
Jane Austen and the Interplay of Character
Reviewed by Kerry-Ann O’Sullivan

Myer, Valerie Grosvenor
Obstinate Heart: Jane Austen, A Biography
Reviewed by Susannah Fullerton

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Nathan, Melissa
Persuading Annie 
Reviewed by Ruth Williamson

Nathan, Melissa 
Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field
Reviewed by Ruth Williamson

Neill, Edward
The Politics of Jane Austen
Reviewed by A/Prof Penny Gay

Nicolson, Nigel
The World of Jane Austen
Reviewed by Meghan Hayward

Nokes, David
Jane Austen: A Life
1997
(a) Reviewed by Christine Alexander

Nokes, David
Jane Austen: A Life
1997
(b) Reviewed by Penny Gay

Nokes, David
Jane Austen: A Life
1997
(c) Reviewed by Lyn Drabsch

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Parker, Jo Alyson 
The Author’s Inheritance: Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, and the Establishment of the Novel
Reviewed by Yvette Field

Paul, Moreland
Reshaping the Sexes in Sense & Sensibility
The University Press of Virginia, 1998
Reviewed by Kerry-Ann O'Sullivan

# Pfau Thomas and Gleckner Robert F. 
Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion (1998)
Reviewed by Pamela Nutt

Picard, Liza
Dr Johnson’s London
Reviewed by Dennis Nutt

Pilgrim, Constance
Dear Jane
published by The Pentland Press Ltd, UK, 1971
Reviewed by Susannah Fullerton

Poplawski, Paul
A Jane Austen Encyclopedia
Greenwood Press Connecticut, 1998
Reviewed by Amanda Jones

R

# Ross Josephine 
Jane Austen: A Companion (2002)
Reviewed by Audrey Keown

S

Sales, Roger
Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England
Reviewed by Anthony Voss

Selwyn, David
Jane Austen and Leisure
Reviewed by Yvette Field

Shields, Carol
Jane Austen
Reviewed by Pamela Nutt

Smither, Elizabeth
The Mathematics Of Jane Austen, and Other Stories
Reviewed by Ruth Williamson

Southam, Brian 
Jane Austen and the Navy
Reviewed by David Byrne 

Spence Jon
A Century of Wills from Jane Austen’s Family 1705-1806
Reviewed by Dennis Nutt
Reviewed by Anthony Monta (JASNA - Jane Austen Society of North America)

# Spence Jon
Becoming Jane Austen (2003)
Reviewed by Penny Gay

Sutherland John
Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennett? Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction
OUP, 1999
Reviewed by Marjorie Jones

T

Tomalin, Claire
Jane Austen: A Life (1997)
Reviewed by Helen Malcher

Troost, Linda & Greenfield, Sayre & (eds)
Jane Austen in Hollywood
Reviewed by Robyn Williams

Tucker, George Holbert
Jane Austen The Woman: Some Biographical Insights
Reviewed by Pamela Whalan

# Tuite Clara 
Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (2002)
Reviewed by Yvette Field

V

Vaughan, Margaret
Tea with the Bennets of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice
Reviewed by Sheila Edwards

W

Waldron, Mary 
Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time
1999
Reviewed by Mary Waite

Waldron, Mary (Guest Editor)
Women's Writing, Vol 5, No 1, 1998, Special Number: Jane Austen
Reviewed by Andrea Richards

Wallace, Tara Ghoshal
Jane Austen and Narrative Authority 
Reviewed by Pamela Nutt

Willoughby, Rupert
Chawton: Jane Austen’s Village
1998
Reviewed by Dennis Nutt

Wilson, Margaret
Almost Another Sister: the story of Fanny Knight, Jane Austen's favourite niece
reviewed by Nan Witherby

Wilson, Margaret 
Jane Austen’s Family and Tonbridge
Reviewed by Pamela Nutt

Wilson, Patrick 
Where’s Where In Jane Austen ... And What Happens There
2002
Reviewed by Harriet Veitch
Reviewed by Phillippa Miskiewicz

Wiltshire John
Recreating Jane Austen
Reviewed by Pamela Nutt

Wynne, Julian Wilmot
Jane Austen and Sigmund Freud: An Interpretation
Reviewed by Denise Harris

Special - 10 lives of Jane Austen compared

At the 1999 JASA Country Weekend at Morpeth, NSW, members reviewed some of the large range of Jane Austen biographies available – new and not so new. Reviewers were invited to comment on the treatment of all, none or some of such elements as Jane’s brother George, her relationship with her mother, the practice of ‘farming out’ babies, Jane’s ‘loves’ (Tom Lefroy, the shadowy gentleman in Devon, Harris Bigg-Wither) etc.

1. Dear Jane, by Constance Pilgrim, published by The Pentland Press Ltd, UK, 1971.
   Reviewed by Susannah Fullerton

2. Jane Austen: A Family Record, by W Austen-Leigh, R A Austen-Leigh and Deirdre le Faye, 1989.
   Reviewed by Susannah Fullerton

3. A Portrait of Jane Austen, by Lord David Cecil, 1978. Reviewed by Marjorie Jones

4. The Parson’s Daughter, by Irene Collins, 1998.
   Reviewed by Anne Harbers

5. Obstinate Heart, by Valerie Grosvenor Myer, 1997. Reviewed by Meghan Hayward

6. Jane Austen: Her Life, by Park Honan, 2nd edition 1987
   Reviewed by Andrea Richards

7. Jane Austen: A Life, by David Nokes, 1997
   Reviewed by Lyn Drabsch

8. Jane Austen: A Biography, by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1938/1972/1986
   Reviewed by Yvette Field

9. Biographical Notice of the Author, by Henry Austen, 1818
   A Memoir of Jane Austen, by James Edward Austen Leigh, 1870/1989
   Reviewed by Amanda Jones

10. Jane Austen: A Life, by Claire Tomalin, 1997
    Reviewed by Helen Malcher

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