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Definition of Jane Austen
1. Noun. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle-class families (1775-1817).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jane Austen
Literary usage of Jane Austen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"Jane Austen (1775-1817) IHE biography of one of the greatest English novelists
might be ... Jane Austen, the second daughter of an English clergyman, ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"CHAPTER X Jane Austen THE literary descent of Jane Austen's fiction is plain to
trace. ... Jane Austen read her novels (in her twenty-first year (1796) she ..."
3. English Prose: Selections by Henry Craik (1907)
"THERE is probably no writer of fiction of whom it can be said, with so much truth
as of Jane Austen, that the taste for his or her books must almost of ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1892)
"With a Memoir of Jane Austen by her nephew, JE Austen Leigh ; a portrait, ...
This volume is not included in any other American edition of Jane Austen. ..."
5. Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton (1909)
"... CHAPTER V REALISM: Jane Austen IT has been said that Miss Austen came nearer
to showing. life as it is,—the life she knew and chose to depict,—than any ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"Jane Austen (1775-1817) IHE biography of one of the greatest English novelists
might be ... Jane Austen, the second daughter of an English clergyman, ..."
7. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"CHAPTER X Jane Austen THE literary descent of Jane Austen's fiction is plain to
trace. ... Jane Austen read her novels (in her twenty-first year (1796) she ..."
8. English Prose: Selections by Henry Craik (1907)
"THERE is probably no writer of fiction of whom it can be said, with so much truth
as of Jane Austen, that the taste for his or her books must almost of ..."
9. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1892)
"With a Memoir of Jane Austen by her nephew, JE Austen Leigh ; a portrait, ...
This volume is not included in any other American edition of Jane Austen. ..."
10. Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton (1909)
"... CHAPTER V REALISM: Jane Austen IT has been said that Miss Austen came nearer
to showing. life as it is,—the life she knew and chose to depict,—than any ..."
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