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[ "The reviewer for the Edinburgh Review thought differently . He praised Austen for her `` exhaustless invention '' .", "The reviewer for the Edinburgh Review disagreed , praising Austen for her `` exhaustless invention '' and the combination of the familiar and the surprising in her plots ." ]
[ "Writer and critic Leslie Stephen described a mania for Austen that grew in the 1880s as `` Austenolatry '' . It was only after the the Memoir was printed that readers grew to like Austen as a person .", "Author and critic Leslie Stephen described a mania that started to develop for Austen in the 1880s as `` Aust...
[ "Whately also addressed Austen 's position as a female writer . He wrote : `` we suspect one of Miss Austin 's ( sic ) great merits in our eyes to be , the insight she gives us into the peculiarities of female heroines are what one knows women must be , though one never can get them to acknowledge ( admit ) it . ''...
[ "As Susan Gubar and Sandra Gilbert explain , Austen laughed at `` love at first sight , the primacy ( first importance ) of passion over all other emotions and\\/or duties , the chivalry exploit of the hero , the vulnerable sensitivity of the heroine , the lovers ' proclaimed ( declared ) indifference to financial ...
[ "We see the novels praised for their elegance of form and their surface ` finish ' ; for the realism of their fictional world , the variety and vitality ( strength ) of their characters ; for their pervasive humor ; and for their gentle and undogmatic morality and its unsermonising delivery .", "We see the novels...
[ "Austenâ s works were translated into various European languages . However , Europeans did not see her works as part of the English novel tradition .", "Despite the fact that Austenâ s novels were translated into many European languages , Europeans did not recognize her works as part of the English novel traditio...
[ "Brian Southam writes about these reviewers : `` their job was merely to provide brief ( short ) notices , extended with quotations , for the benefit ( good ) of women readers compiling their library lists and interested only in knowing whether they would like a book for its story , its characters and moral '' .", ...
[ "Harding 's and Leavis 's articles were followed by Jane Austen : Irony as Defense and Discovery ( 1952 ) .", "Harding 's and Leavis 's articles were followed by another revisionist treatment by Marvin Mudrick in Jane Austen : Irony as Defense and Discovery ( 1952 ) ." ]
[ "Modern Austen scholar William Galperin has noted that `` unlike some of Austen 's lay readers , who recognized her divergence ( difference ) from realistic practice as it had been prescribed and defined at the time , Walter Scott may well have been the first to install Austen as the realist par excellence '' .", ...
[ "In time , though , her writing became an open secret among the aristocracy .", "Eventually , though , her novels ' authorship became an open secret among the aristocracy ." ]
[ "Austen was not well known in Russia . The first Russian translation of an Austen novel did not appear until 1967 .", "Austen was not well known in Russia and the first Russian translation of an Austen novel did not appear until 1967 ." ]
[ "Generating heated debate , Edward Said devoted a chapter of his book Culture and Imperialism ( 1993 ) to Mansfield Park , arguing that the peripheral position of `` Antigua '' and the issue of slavery demonstrated that colonial oppression was an unspoken assumption of English society during the early nineteenth ce...
[ "In one of her visits to London , the Prince Regent invited her to his home .", "During one of her visits to London , the Prince Regent invited her to his home ; his librarian gave her a tour and mentioned that the Regent admired her novels and that `` if Miss Austen had any other Novel forthcoming , she was quit...
[ "Pride and Prejudice was enjoyed by Richard Sheridan , a person who wrote plays . He told a friend to '' ( b ) uy it immediately '' for it `` was one of the cleverest things '' he had ever read .", "After reading Pride and Prejudice , playwright Richard Sheridan advised a friend to '' ( b ) uy it immediately '' f...
[ "George Henry Lewes was a philosopher and literary critic . He spoke about this theme in a series of articles in the 1840s and 1850s .", "Philosopher and literary critic George Henry Lewes articulated this theme in a series of enthusiastic articles in the 1840s and 1850s ." ]
[ "Austen 's stories , though comic , focus on the way women depend on marriage to secure social standing and economic security .", "Austen 's plots , though comic , highlight the way women depend on marriage to secure social standing and economic security ." ]
[ "Most people still thought of her as `` dear aunt Jane '' , the way she was first presented in the Memoir . Howells had made this picture of Austen famous by his essays in the Harper 's Magazine .", "The image of her that dominated the popular imagination was still that first presented in the Memoir and made famo...
[ "The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going , but the exquisite touch which renders ( makes ) ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me .", "The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going , but the exquisite...
[ "Margaret Oliphant was another important writer whose criticism of Austen did not have much influence . She described Austen as `` armed with a ` fine vein of feminine cynicism , ' ` full of subtle power , keenness , finesse , and self-restraint ( control ) , ' with an ` exquisite sense ' of the ` ridiculous , ' ' ...
[ "The EncyclopÃ dia Britannica 's changed the way they described Austen as she became more and more popular .", "The EncyclopÃ dia Britannica 's changing entries on Austen illustrate her increasing popularity and status ." ]
[ "She wished to study all of Austen 's works , style , and techniques together .", "She wished to examine all of Austen 's works together and to subject her style and techniques to methodical analysis ." ]
[ "He was asked by publisher John Murray to review Emma . Emma had come out in print ( without saying who the writer was ) in the March 1816 issue of the Quarterly Review .", "Asked by publisher John Murray to review Emma , famed historical novelist Walter Scott wrote the longest and most thoughtful of these review...
[ "The authors moved away from the sentimental tone of the Memoir . However , they did not go much beyond the family records and traditions they always had .", "Although the authors moved away from the sentimental tone of the Memoir , they made little effort to go beyond the family records and traditions immediatel...
[ "Austen was not democratic enough for Americans . Also , her books did not have the frontier themes that often came out in American literature .", "Austen was not democratic enough for American tastes and her canvas did not explore the frontier themes that had come to define American literature ." ]
[ "He continued Lewes 's comparison to Shakespeare , and wrote that Austen :", "Continuing Lewes 's comparison to Shakespeare , Simpson wrote that Austen :" ]
[ "Therefore , European readers more often thought of Walter Scott 's style as the English novel .", "European readers therefore more readily associated Walter Scott 's style with the English novel ." ]
[ "When Sense and Sensibility ( 1811 ) , Pride and Prejudice ( 1813 ) , Mansfield Park ( 1814 ) and Emma ( 1815 ) came out in print , she became a successful writer .", "With the release of Sense and Sensibility ( 1811 ) , Pride and Prejudice ( 1813 ) , Mansfield Park ( 1814 ) and Emma ( 1815 ) , she achieved succe...
[ "No better criticism of Austen was put in print until the late nineteenth century . Whately and Scott had begun the Victorian era 's view of Austen .", "No more significant , original Austen criticism was published until the late 19th century : Whately and Scott had set the tone for the Victorian era 's view of A...
[ "At the time they were published , Austen 's works were thought fashionable by members of high society . However , they received only a few good reviews .", "At the time they were published , Austen 's works were considered fashionable by members of high society but received few positive reviews ." ]
[ "D. W. Harding , adding to Farrer , wrote an essay called `` Regulated Hatred : An Aspect of the Work of Jane Austen '' .", "D. W. Harding , following and expanding upon Farrer , argued in his essay `` Regulated Hatred : An Aspect of the Work of Jane Austen '' that Austen 's novels did not support the status quo ...
[ "Austen 's books quickly became fashionable . Aristocrats who liked to set the fashion and taste of the day especially liked them .", "Austen 's novels quickly became fashionable among opinion-makers , namely , those aristocrats who often dictated fashion and taste ." ]
[ "In the 1970s and 1980s , Austen studies was influenced by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar 's The Madwoman in the Attic ( 1979 ) . The Madwoman in the Attic explores the `` explosive anger '' of nineteenth-century female English writers under their `` decorous ( proper ) surfaces '' .", "In the 1970s and 1980s , A...
[ "Reviewers thought Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice were stories of virtue overcoming vice .", "Reviewers reduced Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice to didactic tales of virtue prevailing over vice ." ]
[ "The 15-year-old daughter of the Prince Regent , Princess Charlotte Augusta , compared herself to Marianne Dashwood . She remarked , `` I think Marianne & me are very like in disposition , that certainly I am not so good , the same imprudence , & tc '' .", "The fifteen-year-old daughter of the Prince Regent , Pri...
[ "In 1870 the first important Austen biography , A Memoir of Jane Austen , was written by Jane Austen 's nephew , James Edward Austen-Leigh and printed .", "In 1870 , this changed with the publication of the first significant Austen biography , A Memoir of Jane Austen , which was written by Jane Austen 's nephew ,...
[ "Austen was a professional writer .", "However , this description is in direct contrast to the excitement Austen shows in her letters regarding publication and profit : Austen was a professional writer ." ]
[ "They began calling themselves Janeites . They wanted to show that they were different from the people who they thought did not understand Austen properly .", "They referred to themselves as Janeites to distinguish themselves from the masses who , in their view , did not properly understand Austen ." ]
[ "As Southam says , `` for American literary nationalists Jane Austen 's cultivated scene was too pale , too constrained , too refined , too downright unheroic '' .", "As Southam explains , `` for American literary nationalists Jane Austen 's cultivated scene was too pallid , too constrained , too refined , too do...
[ "Henrietta Ponsonby , Countess of Bessborough wrote about Sense and Sensibility in a letter to a friend . She said : `` it is a clever novel .", "Lady Bessborough , sister to the notorious Georgiana , Duchess of Devonshire , commented on Sense and Sensibility in a letter to a friend : `` it is a clever novel ." ]
[ "For example , the French writer Isabelle de Montolieu translated several of Austen 's novels into the French sentimental novel .", "For example , the French novelist Isabelle de Montolieu translated several of Austen 's novels into a genre in which Montolieu herself wrote : the French sentimental novel ." ]
[ "The reviewer for the British Critic felt that Austen 's great use of realism was proof of a limited imagination .", "The reviewer for the British Critic felt that Austen 's exclusive dependence on realism was evidence of a deficient imagination ." ]
[ "`` The Novels of Jane Austen '' was put in print in Blackwood 's Magazine in 1859 . In there , Lewes praised Austen 's books for `` the economy of easy adaptation of means to ends , with no aid ( help ) from superfluous elements '' .", "In `` The Novels of Jane Austen '' , published anonymously in Blackwood 's M...
[ "Austen 's works are noted for their realism , biting social commentary , and clever use of free indirect speech . They are also remarkable for their burlesque and irony .", "Austen 's works are noted for their realism , biting social commentary , and masterful use of free indirect speech , burlesque and irony ."...
[ "Mid-century revisionist views started to become popular , and scholars began studying Austen more sceptically .", "In an outpouring of mid-century revisionist views , scholars approached Austen more sceptically ." ]
[ "The action begins ; the people speak , feel , and act ; everything that is said , felt , or done tends towards the entanglement or disentanglement of the plot ; and we are almost made actors as well as spectators ( viewers ) of the little drama . ''", "The action begins ; the people speak , feel , and act ; ever...
[ "This included the epistolary novel ( novel in letters ) , which she tried and did not like . She wrote and revised three important novels and began a fourth .", "During this period , she experimented with various literary forms , including the epistolary novel which she tried and then abandoned , and wrote and e...
[ "Jane Austen lived her entire life as part of a large and close family . Her family was in the lower part of the English gentry .", "Jane Austen lived her entire life as part of a large and close-knit family on the lower fringes of the English gentry ." ]
[ "Anne Milbanke , future wife of Lord Byron , wrote that `` I have finished the Novel called Pride and Prejudice , which I think a very superior ( good ) work . ''", "Anne Milbanke , future wife of the Romantic poet Lord Byron , wrote that `` I have finished the Novel called Pride and Prejudice , which I think a v...
[ "Through her use of irony , Austen tried to protect herself as an artist and a person from the behavior and practices she disliked .", "Through her use of irony , Austen attempted to protect her integrity as an artist and a person in the face of attitudes and practices she rejected ." ]
[ "Alistair M. Duckworth in The Improvement of the Estate : A Study of Jane Austen 's Novels ( 1971 ) argues that Austen used the concept of the `` estate '' to symbolise all that was important society , which should be conserved ( kept ) , improved , and passed down to future generations .", "In a similar vein , A...
[ "Lascelles included a short essay about her , a study of the books Austen read and their influence on her writing , and a study of Austen 's style and `` narrative art '' .", "Lascelles included a short biographical essay ; an innovative analysis of the books Austen read and their effect on her writing ; and an e...
[ "This was followed by editions with pictures , collectors ' sets , and scholarly editions .", "This was followed by a proliferation of elaborate illustrated editions , collectors ' sets , and scholarly editions ." ]
[ "American novelist Henry James liked Austen . Once he said she was as great as Shakespeare , Cervantes , and Henry Fielding -- `` the fine painters of life '' .", "American novelist Henry James , one member of this literary elite , referred to Austen several times with approval and on one occasion ranked her with...
[ "The way Americans thought about Austen was represented in an argument between William Dean Howells and Mark Twain .", "By the turn of the century , the American response was represented by the debate between the American novelist and critic William Dean Howells and the writer and humorist Mark Twain ." ]
[ "He said : `` The reader 's pulse never throbs , his curiosity is never intense ( very strong ) ; but his interest never wanes ( stops ) for a moment .", "Arguing that Austen lacked the ability to construct a plot , he still celebrated her dramatisations : `` The reader 's pulse never throbs , his curiosity is ne...
[ "It was based mostly on family papers and letters . It is described by Austen biographer Park Honan as `` accuracy , staid ( steady ) , reliability , and at times vivid and suggestive '' .", "Based primarily on family papers and letters , it is described by Austen biographer Park Honan as `` accurate , staid , re...
[ "The university English departments began developing in the first half of the twentieth century . As they grew , criticism of Austen split into remarkable high culture and popular culture trends .", "With the growing professionalisation of university English departments in the first half of the 20th century , cri...
[ "Southam calls it as a `` Janeite '' piece without the worship .", "Southam describes it as a `` Janeite '' piece without the worship ." ]
[ "According to critic Ian Watt , they liked her '' to ordinary ( usual ) social experience '' .", "Austen had many admiring readers during the 19th century , who , according to critic Ian Watt , appreciated her '' to ordinary social experience '' ." ]
[ "Johnson also places Austen in an eighteenth-century political tradition . However , she notes the influence Austen received from the political novels of the 1790s written by women .", "Johnson similarly places Austen in an 18th-century political tradition , however , she outlines the debt Austen owes to the poli...
[ "In 1917 , he published a long essay in the Quarterly Review . Jane Austen scholar A. Walton Litz called it the best single introduction to her works .", "In an effort to avoid the sentimental image of the `` Aunt Jane '' tradition and approach Austen 's fiction from a fresh perspective , in 1917 British intellec...
[ "Austen refused the librarian 's suggestion after that to write a historical romance for the prince 's daughter 's marriage .", "Austen turned down the librarian 's further hint to write a historical romance in honor of the prince 's daughter 's marriage ." ]
[ "This was written by Martin Mudrick , who saw Austen as lonely , defensive , and critical of her society . He carefully described the connection between Austen 's attitude towards the literature of her time and how she used irony to show the difference of how society was , and how she thought it could be .", "Mud...
[ "Richard Simpson , Margaret Oliphant , and Leslie Stephen were some of the best reviewers .", "Among the most astute of these critics were Richard Simpson , Margaret Oliphant , and Leslie Stephen ." ]
[ "Austen 's works had been in print in the United States from 1832 . However , it was only after 1870 that Americans began seriously considering Austen 's works .", "Although Austen 's novels had been published in the United States since 1832 , albeit in bowdlerised editions , it was not until after 1870 that ther...
[ "Also , when Julia Prewitt Brown 's Jane Austen 's Novels : Social Change and Literary Form ( 1979 ) , Margaret Kirkham 's Jane Austen : Feminism and Fiction ( 1983 ) , and Claudia L. Johnson 's Jane Austen : Women , Politics and the Novel ( 1988 ) were printed , scholars were no longer able to argue that Austen wa...
[ "An important British critic , F. R. Leavis , said in The Great Tradition ( 1948 ) that Austen was one of the great writers of English fiction . Ian Watt agreed , and helped shape the arguments about the genre of the novel .", "These revisionist views , together with prominent British critic F. R. Leavis 's prono...
[ "The eighth edition ( 1854 ) called her `` an elegant novelist '' . The ninth edition ( 1875 ) praised her as `` one of the most distinguished ( remarkable ) modern British novelists '' .", "The eighth edition ( 1854 ) described her as `` an elegant novelist '' while the ninth edition ( 1875 ) lauded her as `` on...
[ "However , Austen 's works were not exactly what her Romantic and Victorian British audience liked . They wished for `` powerful emotion ( be ) authenticated by an egregious display of sound and color in the writing '' .", "However , Austen 's novels did not conform to certain strong Romantic and Victorian Britis...
[ "As Rajeswari Rajan notes , `` the idea of a political Austen is no longer seriously challenged '' .", "As Rajeswari Rajan notes in her essay on recent Austen scholarship , `` the idea of a political Austen is no longer seriously challenged '' ." ]
[ "In 1905 , James said he did not like the public interest in Austen . He said it was more than Austen 's `` intrinsic merit ( worth ) and interest '' deserved .", "In 1905 , James responded frustratingly to what he described as `` a beguiled infatuation '' with Austen , a rising tide of public interest that excee...
[ "The questions scholars now study include : `` the Revolution , war , nationalism , empire , class , ` improvement ' ( of the estate ) , the clergy , town versus ( against ) country , abolition , the professions , female emancipation ; whether her politics were Tory , Whig , or radical ; whether she was a conservat...
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[ "The London Borough of Southwark is a London Borough . It is in south east London .", "The London Borough of Southwark is a London borough in south east London , England ." ]
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[ "In the beginning the officer had direct control only over Fort William , but supervised other British East India Company officials in India .", "The officer had direct control only over Fort William , but supervised other British East India Company officials in India ." ]

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