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BIBLIOGRAPHY
The following list of books is confined to the main editions of the novels and, with a few exceptions, to books dealing entirely, or almost entirely, with the author. It does not attempt to include all the cheap reprints of the novels, nor all the histories of English literature, &c., which make mention of Jane Austen, nor the innumerable magazine articles that have been devoted to her and her writings. Many of these last, however, will be found recorded in the bibliographies included in Mr. Goldwin Smith’s and Mr. Oscar Fay Adams’s volumes.
1811 [Oct.]
Sense and Sensibility.
A novel. In three volumes.
By a Lady. London: printed for the author, by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar; and published by T. Egerton, Whitehall, 1811. 12mo.
1813 [Jan.]
Pride and Prejudice.
A novel. In three volumes.
By the author of
Sense and Sensibility
. London: printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1813. 12mo.
[Vol. I was printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar; Vols. II and III by G. Sidney, Northumberland Street, Strand.]
1813 [Oct.]
Pride and Prejudice.
A novel. In three volumes.
By the author of
Sense and Sensibility
. Second edition. London: printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1813. 12mo.
[Printers as in first edition.]
1813 [Oct.]
Sense and Sensibility.
A novel. In three volumes.
By the author of
Pride and Prejudice
. The second edition. London: printed for the author, by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar; and published by T. Egerton, Whitehall, 1813. 12mo.
1814 [May]
Mansfield Park.
A novel. In three volumes. By
the author of
Sense and Sensibility
and
Pride and Prejudice
. London: printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1814. 12mo.
[Vols. I and III were printed by G. Sidney, Northumberland Street, Strand; Vol. II by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar.]
1815 [Dec.]
Emma.
A novel. In three volumes. By the author
of
Pride and Prejudice
, &c., &c. London: printed for John Murray, 1816. 12mo.
[Vols. I and II were printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar; Vol. III by J. Moyes, Greville Street, Hatton Garden, London.]
1816 [Feb.]
Mansfield Park.
A novel. In three volumes. By
the author of
Pride and Prejudice
. Second edition. London: printed for J. Murray, Albemarle Street, 1816. 12mo.
[Vols. I and III were printed by J. Moyes, Greville Street, Hatton Garden, London; Vol. II by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar.]
1817
Pride and Prejudice.
A novel. In two volumes.
By the author of
Sense and Sensibility
, &c. Third edition. London: printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1817. 12mo.
[Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar.]
1818
Northanger Abbey
and
Persuasion
. By the author
of
Pride and Prejudice
,
Mansfield Park
, &c. With a biographical notice of the author. In four volumes. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1818. 12mo.
[Vols. I and II, containing
Northanger Abbey
, were printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar; Vols. III and IV, containing
Persuasion
, by T. Davison, Lombard Street, Whitefriars, London.]
1824
L’Abbaye de Northanger;
traduit de l’anglais de
Jeanne Austen, auteur d’
Orgueil et Préjugé
, du
Parc de Mansfield
, de la
Famille Elliott
, de la Nouvelle
Emma
, &c. Par Mme. Hyacinthe de F.* * * * [Ferrières]. 3 tom. Paris. Pigoreau. 12mo.
[There is a short ‘Notice biographique’ taken from the English edition.]
1833
Novels by Miss Jane Austen.
‘Standard Novels’
series. Five volumes. London: Richard Bentley.
8vo. [This series contains a set of steel engravings — two to each novel, a frontispiece and a vignette after Pickering.
Sense and Sensibility
contains a biographical notice (by Henry Austen), which includes a few facts not mentioned in the preface to the original edition of
Northanger
Abbey.
]
1870
A Memoir of Jane Austen.
By her nephew, J. E.
Austen-Leigh. London: Richard Bentley & Son.
vo.
1871
A Memoir of Jane Austen.
By her nephew, J. E.
Austen Leigh. Second edition; to which is added
Lady Susan
and fragments of two other unfinished tales by Miss Austen. London: Richard Bentley & Son. vo.
1880
Jane Austen and her Works.
By Sarah Tytler.
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. pp. viii-386. 8vo.
[This contains a Life drawn from the
Memoir
, and a résumé of each of the novels.]
1882
Jane Austen’s Novels.
Steventon Edition. Five
volumes. London: Richard Bentley & Son. 8vo.
1883
A Book of Sibyls.
By Anne Isabella Thackeray.
London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. vi-229. 8vo.
[‘Jane Austen,’ p-229.]
1884
Letters of Jane Austen.
Edited, with an introduction
and critical remarks, by Edward, Lord Brabourne. Two volumes. London: Richard Bentley & Son.
[This includes: (1) a series of letters from Jane to Cassandra; (2) letters from Jane to Fanny Knight; (3) letters from Jane to Anna Austen (Mrs. B. Lefroy); and (4) two letters from Cassandra to Fanny Knight, just after Jane’s death.]
1885
Dictionary of National Biography.
London: Smith,
Elder & Co. ‘Jane Austen,’ by L[eslie]. S[tephen].
[This account, based on the
Memoir
and the
Letters
(which latter are said to be trivial and to give no new facts), is accurate: except in stating that Jane was the youngest of seven children, and that she went to Castle Square, Southampton, in 1805.]
1886
Letters to Dead Authors.
By Andrew Lang. London:
Longmans, Green & Co. 8vo.
[‘To Jane Austen,’ p-85.]
1888
Chapters from Jane Austen.
Edited by Oscar Fay
Adams. Boston: Lee & Shepard.
1889
Jane Austen.
By S. F. Malden [Mrs. Charles Malden].
‘Eminent Women’ series. London: W. H. Allen. vo.
[Much space is devoted to an abstract of the novels.]
1890
Life of Jane Austen.
By Goldwin Smith. ‘Great
Writers’ series. London: Walter Scott. p-v. 8vo.
[Contains a bibliography compiled by J. P. Anderson.]
1891
The Story of Jane Austen’s Life.
By Oscar Fay
Adams. Chicago: A. D. McClurg & Co. pp. v-277. 8vo.
[Includes a bibliography.]
1892
The Novels of Jane Austen.
Edited by R. Brimley
Johnson; with illustrations by William Cubit Cooke, and ornaments by F. C. Tilney. Ten volumes. London: J. M. Dent & Co.
[The first volume of
Sense and Sensibility
contains an account of Jane Austen, pp. xi-xxxi. This was the first really independent issue of the novels — Bentley’s edition having previously held the field. Mr. Johnson, as a rule, followed the text of the latest edition which appeared in the author’s lifetime. Unfortunately, his printers introduced a good many new misprints of their own.]
1894
Pride and Prejudice.
With a preface by George
Saintsbury, and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London: George Allen. pp. xxvii-476. 8vo.
1895
Charades, etc. Written a Hundred Tears Ago.
By
Jane Austen and her family. London: Spottiswoode & Co. vo.
1895
Duologues and Scenes from the Novels of Jane Austen,
arranged and adapted for Drawing-room Performance.
By Rosina Filippi (Mrs. Dowson); with illustrations by Miss Fletcher. London: J. M. Dent & Co. pp. xv-139. 8vo.
1895-7
Jane Austen’s Novels.
With illustrations by Hugh
Thomson [but
Pride and Prejudice
is illustrated by C. E. Brock] and introductions by Austin Dobson. Five volumes. London: Macmillan & Co. 8vo.
[These volumes were afterwards (1902-4) reprinted and issued in Macmillan’s ‘Illustrated Pocket Classics.’]
1897
Essays on the Novel: as illustrated by Scott and Miss
Austen.
By A. A. Jack. London: Macmillan & Co.
[‘Miss Austen,’ p-297.]
1898
The Novels of Jane Austen.
Winchester Edition.
Ten volumes. London: Grant Richards. 8vo.
[Subsequently, in 1906, this edition was re-issued with a new title-page by John Grant of Edinburgh.]
1898
Emma.
With an introduction by Joseph Jacobs,
and illustrations by Chris Hammond. London: George Allen. pp. xxvi-504. 8vo.
1898
The Novels of Jane Austen.
Edited by R. Brimley
Johnson; with coloured illustrations by C. E. and H. M. Brock. London: J. M. Dent & Co.
[This edition seems to be printed from the same type as that used in the 1892 edition. Many of the obvious misprints have been corrected; but two following chapters in
Mansfield Park
are still numbered xxxii, throwing out the numeration of all subsequent chapters.]
1899
Jane Austen: Her Contemporaries and Herself.
An
essay in criticism. By Walter Herries Pollock. London: Longmans, Green & Co. vo.
[The contemporaries are Miss Burney, Miss Edgeworth, and Miss Ferrier.]
1899
Sense and Sensibility.
With an introduction by J.
Jacobs, and illustrations by Chris Hammond. London: George Allen, pp. xxviii-389. 8vo.
1899
The Works of Jane Austen.
With coloured frontispieces
by H. M. Brock. The Temple Edition. Ten volumes. London: J. M. Dent & Co. 8vo.
1899
Catherine Morland.
[sc.
Northanger Abbey.
] Roman
traduit de l’anglais. Par F. Fénélon. Published in
La Revue blanche
. Paris. vo.
1900
Pride and Prejudice.
With an introduction and notes
by E. V. Lucas. Methuen’s ‘Little Library.’ Two volumes. London: Methuen & Co.
Pride and Prejudice.
Illustrated by Chris Hammond;
with an introduction by William Keith Leask. London: The Gresham Publishing Co. 8vo. n.d.
1901
Northanger Abbey.
With an introduction by E. V.
Lucas. Methuen’s ‘Little Library.’ London: Methuen & Co. pp. xiv-273. 8vo.
1902
The Novels of Jane Austen.
Hampshire Edition. Five
volumes. London: R. Brimley Johnson. 8vo.
[There is a publisher’s note at the beginning of
Pride and Prejudice
, and each novel contains two specially drawn end-papers illustrating its topographical details. The text differs occasionally from that of the novels
edited
by Mr. Brimley Johnson.]
1902
Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends.
By
Constance Hill. Illustrations by Ellen G. Hill, and reproductions in photogravure, &c. London: John Lane. pp. viii-279. 8vo.
[The book contains much topographical detail.]
1904
Pride and Prejudice.
Illustrated by Chris Hammond.
London: Blackie & Son. pp. viii-392. 8vo.
1905
The Works of Jane Austen.
‘Sense and Sensibility.’
Introduction by Sidney Lee. Methuen’s Standard Library. London: Methuen & Co. pp. vii-247. 8vo.
[It is stated that the text is taken from that of the second edition. The other novels in this series do not seem to have been published up to the present.]
1905
Jane Austen and her Times.
By G. E. Mitton. With
twenty-one illustrations. London: Methuen & Co. pp. viii-334. 8vo.
1906
Jane Austen’s Novels.
With introduction by R.
Brimley Johnson. Everyman’s Library. Five volumes. London: J. M. Dent & Co. 8vo.
1906
Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers: being the Adventures
of Sir Francis Austen, G.C.B., Admiral of the Fleet, and Rear-Admiral Charles Austen.
By J. H. Hubback and Edith C. Hubback. London: John Lane. pp. xiv-294. 8vo.
[Four hitherto unpublished letters of Jane to her brothers are given.]
1907
The Works of Jane Austen
— I. ‘Emma.’ With an
introduction by E. V. Lucas. The World’s Classics. Oxford: Henry Frowde. pp. xv-459. 8vo.
1907-9 [
The Novels of Jane Austen.
] With coloured illustrations
by C. E. Brock. ‘The Series of English Idylls.’ Five volumes. London: J. M. Dent & Co. 8vo.
1908-10
The Novels of Jane Austen.
With general introduction
and notes by R. Brimley Johnson. Coloured illustrations and end-pieces by A. Wallis Mills. The Saint Martin’s Illustrated Library of Standard Authors. Ten volumes. London: Chatto & Windus. 8vo.
1909
Jane Austen and Her Country-house Comedy.
By
W. H. Helm. London: Eveleigh Nash. pp. x-259. 8vo.
[A critical appreciation. The frontispiece is an imaginary portrait of Jane Austen.]
1910
Pride and Prejudice.
Abridged and edited by
Mrs. Frederick Boas. English Literature for Schools. Cambridge: at the University Press. pp. xix-211. 8vo.
[The editor’s object is to present the book in a form suitable for school reading. Some notes are given.]
1910
Encyclopædia Britannica.
Eleventh Edition. Cambridge:
at the University Press.
[‘Jane Austen,’ by E. V. L[ucas], vol. ii. p-7.]
[This is an accurate account, except that it contains the same two mistakes as those in the
Dictionary of National Biography
.]
1911
Essays and Studies.
By members of the English
Association. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press.
[‘Jane Austen,’ by A. C. Bradley, vol. ii. p-36.]