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A
Advice to a Young Lady in the Colonies
Edited by Margaret Barca
Reviewed by Meghan Hayward, secretary JASA
Almost Another Sister: the Story of Fanny
Knight, Jane Austen's Favourite Niece
by Margaret Wilson
reviewed by Nan Witherby
The Author’s Inheritance: Henry Fielding, Jane
Austen, and the Establishment of the Novel
Jo
Alyson Parker
reviewed by Yvette Field
B
# Becoming Jane Austen (2003)
by Jon Spence
Reviewed by Penny Gay
Biographical Notice of the
Author
by Henry Austen, 1818
and
A Memoir of Jane Austen
by James Edward Austen Leigh, 1870/1989
Reviewed by Amanda Jones
C
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen
edited by Juliet McMaster and Edward Copeland
Reviewed by Yvette Field
A Century of Wills from Jane Austen’s
Family 1705-1806
by Jon Spence
Reviewed by Dennis Nutt
Reviewed by JASNA (Jane Austen Society of North America)
Chawton: Jane Austen’s Village
by Rupert Willoughby, 1998
Reviewed by Dennis Nutt
A City of Palaces: Bath through the Eyes of
Fanny Burney
Maggie Lane
Reviewed by Jim Priddice
A Collection of Letters by Jane Austen
Edited by Juliet McMaster & others
Reviewed by Judy Greenaway
D
Dear Jane
by Constance Pilgrim
published by The Pentland Press Ltd, UK, 1971
Reviewed by Susannah Fullerton
Dr Johnson’s London
by Liza Picard
Reviewed by Dennis Nutt
E
The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
Reviewed by Marjorie Jones
F
Fair Maid of Kent (the Rice portrait
revisited)
by Claudia Johnson,
Reviewed by Pamela Nutt
Fanny Knight ‘s Diaries:Jane Austen
through her Niece’s Eyes
by Deirdre Le Faye
Reviewed by Sheila Edwards
G
A Governess in the Age of
Jane Austen: The Journals & Letters of Agnes Porter
Joanna Martin (ed.)
Reviewed by Freda Mullaly
H
Hen Frigates: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea
by Joan Druett
Reviewed by Meghan Hayward
J
Jane and Her Gentlemen: Jane Austen and the Men in her
Life and Novels
by Audrey Hawkridge
Reviewed by Julie Sparks
Jane Austen
by Deirdre Le Faye
British Library series Writers' Lives
Greenwood Press Connecticut, 1998
Reviewed by Yasmine Gooneratne
Jane Austen
by Carol Shields
Reviewed by Pamela Nutt
Jane Austen: A Biography
by Elizabeth Jenkins, 1938/1972/1986
Reviewed by Yvette Field
# Jane Austen: A Companion (2002)
by Josephine Ross
Reviewed by Audrey Keown
Jane Austen: A Family Record
by W Austen-Leigh, R A Austen-Leigh and Deirdre le Faye, 1989
Reviewed by Susannah Fullerton
Jane Austen: A Life
by Claire Tomalin, 1997
Reviewed by Helen Malcher
Jane Austen: A Life
by David Nokes, 1997
(a) Reviewed by Christine Alexander
Jane Austen: A Life
by David Nokes, 1997
(b) Reviewed by Penny Gay
Jane Austen: A Life
by David Nokes, 1997
(c) Reviewed by Lyn Drabsch
Jane Austen and Eighteenth Century
Courtesy Books
by Penelope Joan Fritzer
Reviewed by Audrey Keown
Jane Austen and Leisure
David Selwyn
Reviewed by Yvette Field
Jane Austen and Lyme Regis
Maggie Lane
Reviewed by Pamela Nutt
Jane Austen and Narrative Authority
Tara Ghoshal Wallace
Reviewed by Pamela Nutt
Jane Austen and Representations of Regency
England
by Roger Sales
Reviewed by Anthony Voss
Jane Austen and Sigmund Freud:
An Interpretation
by Julian Wilmot Wynne
Reviewed by Denise Harris
Jane Austen and the Fiction of her
Time
by Mary Waldron
Reviewed by Mary Waite
Jane Austen and the Interplay of
Character
by Ivor Morris
Reviewed by Kerry-Ann O’Sullivan
Jane Austen and the Navy
by Brian Southam
Reviewed by David Byrne
Jane Austen and the Theatre
by Penny Gay
Reviewed by Pamela Whalan
Jane Austen: Antipodean Views
edited by Susannah Fullerton & Anne Harbers
Reviewed by Pamela Whalan
The Jane Austen Collection (CD)
by Peter Harrison
Reviewed by Kath Holmes
A Jane Austen Encyclopedia
by Paul Poplawski
Greenwood Press Connecticut, 1998
Reviewed by Amanda Jones
Jane Austen Fashion ~ Fashion &
Needlework in the Works of Jane Austen
by Penelope Byrde
Reviewed by Marlene Arditto
Jane Austen, Feminism & Fiction
by Margaret Kirkham
Reviewed by Amanda Jones
Jane Austen: Her Life
by Park Honan, 2nd edition 1987
Reviewed by Andrea Richards
Jane Austen in Hollywood
Linda Troost & Sayre Greenfield (eds)
Reviewed by Robyn Williams
The Jane Austen Quiz Book
by Helen Barton
Reviewed by Meghan Hayward
Jane Austen’s Family and Tonbridge
by Margaret Wilson
Reviewed by Pamela Nutt
Jane Austen's Family Through Five Generations
by Maggie Lane
Reviewed by Yvette Field
Jane Austen’s Lesley Castle
Edited by Jan Fergus
Reviewed by Michelle Morgan
Jane Austen’s ‘Outlandish
Cousin’: The Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide
by Deirdre Le Faye
Reviewed by Joan Lucas
Jane Austen’s World
by Maggie Lane
Reviewed by Marjorie Jones
Jane Austen: The Parson's Daughter
by Irene Collins
(a) Reviewed by Bertha McKenzie
Jane Austen: The Parson’s Daughter
by Irene Collins, 1998
(b) Reviewed by Anne Harbers
Jane Austen The Woman: Some Biographical
Insights
by George Holbert Tucker
Reviewed by Pamela Whalan
Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees
edited by Deirdre Lynch
Reviewed by Maggie Lane & by #Robyn
Williams
L
# Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical
Companion (1998)
Edited by Thomas Pfau and Robert F. Gleckner
Reviewed by Pamela Nutt
Letters from Pemberley
by Jane Dawkins
Reviewed by Sue Lack
M
The Mathematics Of Jane Austen,
and Other Stories
by Elizabeth Smither
Reviewed by Ruth Williamson
A Memoir of Jane Austen
by James Edward Austen Leigh, 1870/1989
Biographical Notice of the Author
by Henry Austen, 1818
Reviewed by Amanda Jones
O
Obstinate Heart: Jane Austen, A Biography
by Valerie Grosvenor Myer
Reviewed by Susannah Fullerton
P
Persuading Annie
By Melissa Nathan
Reviewed by Ruth Williamson
The Politics of Jane Austen
Edward Neill
Reviewed by A/Prof Penny Gay
A Portrait of Jane Austen
by Lord David Cecil, 1978
Reviewed by Marjorie Jones
Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field
By Melissa Nathan
Reviewed by Ruth Williamson
Pride and Promiscuity: the Lost Sex Scenes
of Jane Austen
By Arielle Eckstut and Dennis Ashton
Reviewed by Elsa Solender, immediate past President, JASNA
R
Recreating Jane Austen
by John Wiltshire
Reviewed by Pamela Nutt
Regulated Hatred and Other Essays on Jane Austen
by D. W. Harding 1998
Reviewed by Jon Spence
Reshaping the Sexes in Sense &
Sensibility
by Moreland Perkins
The University Press of Virginia, 1998
Reviewed by Kerry-Ann O'Sullivan
# Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon
(2002)
by Clara Tuite
Reviewed by Yvette Field
S
# Sibling Love & Incest in Jane Austen’s Fiction
by Glenda A Hudson
Reviewed by Amanda Jones
T
Tea with the Bennets of Jane
Austen’s Pride & Prejudice
by Margaret Vaughan, UK
Reviewed by Sheila Edwards
W
What Killed Jane Austen?
by Dr George Biro and Dr Jim Leavesley
Reviewed by Geoff Johnson
Where’s Where In Jane Austen ... And What
Happens There
by Patrick Wilson
Reviewed by Harriet Veitch
Reviewed by Phillippa Miskiewicz
Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennett? Further Puzzles in
Classic Fiction
by John Sutherland
OUP, 1999
Reviewed by Marjorie Jones
The Wit And Wisdom Of Jane
Austen
by Michael Kerrigan (ed), 1996
Reviewed by Annette Harman
Women's Writing, Vol 5, No
1, 1998, Special Number: Jane Austen
Guest Editor: Mary Waldron
Reviewed by Andrea Richards
The World of Jane Austen
by Nigel Nicolson
Reviewed by Meghan Hayward
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