This season we're celebrating 250 years of Jane Austen, and she needs a proper introduction. We talk about her family and how they've helped and hindered our understanding of "Dear Aunt Jane." We discover how Austen's difficulties with publication helped her become a more confident and experimental writer, and we learn why there's no one to touch Jane when you're in a tight place.

Sources and Links:

Auerbach, Emily. Searching for Jane Austen (2004).

Gettmann, Royal A. A Victorian Publisher: A Study of the Bentley Papers (1960).

Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination (1980).

“Portraits of Jane Austen.” Jane Austen Society of North America. https://jasna.org/austen/more-on-jane-austens-life/portraits/

Kendra, April. “‘You, Madam, Are No Jane Austen’: Mrs. Gore and the Anxiety of Influence” (2007).

Kipling, Rudyard. “The Janeites” (1924).

Worsley, Lucy. Jane Austen at Home: A Biography (2017).

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own (1929).

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