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Emma & Clueless

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  Transformation
• Clueless overview
• Questionnaire
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Pride & Prejudice

• Syllabus
• The society
• Resources

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Jane Austen Society of Australia: Study Guide

Resources Pride & Prejudice

A short list of further reading & references

Becoming Jane Austen. The newest biography on the block, and one of the best. Dr Jon Spence, Hambledon & London, London, 2003. (purchase link?)

Jane Austen: A Life, Claire Tomalin (winner of the Whitbread prize), Penguin Books, 1998.
Tomalin is a great pleasure to read. This work is clear, interesting and covers a lot of territory.

Jane Austen's Letters. Collected and Edited by Deirdre LeFaye, Third Edition. Oxford University
Press, 1995.
The Letters are a superb, near-essential source for all Jane Austen study.

Jane Austen's England, by Maggie Lane, Robert Hale, 1989, reprinted up to 1996. Maggie Lane's works are extremely well researched and informed, as well as being a pleasure to read.

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mETAphor is the journal of the English Teachers’ Association (NSW). It contains a variety of articles which explore texts in the context of the HSC Syllabus. Some examples are:

July, 2000: 

Freiman, M., “Simon Langton’s Pride and Prejudice”

mETAphor, published four times a year, is available from the ETA, PO Box 425, Newtown, NSW, 2042. The phone number of the Association is (02) 9517 9799.

A short list of current websites

General:

1. http://www.pemberley.com/etext/index.html
   This site carries the texts of all six Austen novels. Most convenient if you need to quote from the text in your assignments. Don't forget to acknowledge the source!
   
2. http://www.uah.edu/colleges/liberal/education/S1998/jennyd.html#Austen's%20Writing2.
   Some of the social background.

Specifically:

Some websites which are of assistance to the Extension 1 student studying The Individual and Society in which Pride and Prejudice occurs are:

1. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,

http://www.bartleby.com/144/ for a background to ways of thinking about the challenge to the perceived role of women in society at the end of the 18^th Century.

2. The Victorian Web

http://65.107.211.206/ Although this site does not cover Jane Austen’s lifetime, it is useful for a background to many ways of thinking in 19^th Century England.

3. Victorian Web sites

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html Once again, for the broader 19^th Century