Sanditon And Other Stories

”[In her earliest writings] we see the essential Austen … There is a force behind Austen’s farce-an energy which demands expression, an irony which will not be refused, a distinctive vision of life already apparent in the teenage writer … What grips one about the early works at every turn is the wit, the fire, the voice, the comic distance Austen sets up between herself and her fictional characters … Lady Susan is a classic, and “Sanditon” might have been Austen’s greatest book, had death not prevented her from completing her final novel.” -from the Introduction by Peter Washington” [In her earliest writings] we see the essential Austen … There is a force behind Austen’ s farce- an energy which demands expression, an irony which will not be refused, a distinctive vision of life already apparent in the teenage writer … What grips one about the early works at every turn is the wit, the fire, the voice, the comic distance Austen sets up between herself and her fictional characters … Lady Susan is a classic, and “Sanditon” might have been Austen’ s greatest book, had death not prevented her from completing her final novel.” - from the Introduction by Peter Washington” [In her earliest writings] we see the essential Austen … There is a force behind Austen’s farce- an energy which demands expression, an irony which will not be refused, a distinctive vision of life already apparent in the teenage writer … What grips one about the early works at every turn is the wit, the fire, the voice, the comic distance Austen sets up between herself and her fictional characters … Lady Susan is a classic, and “Sanditon” might have been Austen’s greatest book, had death not prevented her from completing her final novel.” - from the Introduction by Peter Washington“ÝIn her earliest writings¨ we see the essential Austen … There is a force behind Austen’s farce-an energy which demands expression, an irony which will not be refused, a distinctive vision of life already apparent in the teenage writer … What grips one about the early works at every turn is the wit, the fire, the voice, the comic distance Austen sets up between herself and her fictional characters … Lady Susan is a classic, and “Sanditon” might have been Austen’s greatest book, had death not prevented her from completing her final novel.” -from the Introduction by Peter Washington

Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Born December 16, 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, Jane Austen was the seventh child of the Rev. George Austen (1731-1805) and Cassandra Leigh (1739-1827).

• 1784⁄5: Jane and her sister, Cassandra, leave the Abbey School, Reading.
• 1795: Elinor and Marianne written. Lady Susan written.
• 1796: First Impressions begun (finished Aug 1797).
• 1797: Sense and Sensibility begun. First Impressions unsuccessfully offered to Cadell.
• 1798⁄9: Northanger Abbey (Susan) written. Sold to Crosby & Co. in 1803.
• 1801: The Austens settle in Bath.
• 1805: Rev. George Austen dies. The Watsons and Lady Susan (R. W. Chapman’s dating) written about this time.
• 1806: The Austens leave Bath for Clifton and visit Adlestrop and Stoneleigh.
• 1807: The Austens settle in at Castle Square, Southampton.
• 1809: The Austens move to Chawton, Hampshire (owned by Jane’s brother Edward).
• 1811: Mansfield Park begun (Feb). Sense and Sensibility published (Nov.)
• 1812: Pride and Prejudice sold to Egerton (Nov).
• 1813: Pride and Prejudice published (Jan.). Second editions of this and Sense and Sensibility (Nov.).
• 1814: Emma begun (Jan-Mar). Mansfield Park published by Egerton (May).
• 1815: Persuasion begun (finished August 1816). Emma published by John Murray (Dec).
• 1816: Mansfield Park, second edition.
• 1817: Sanditon begun (Jan-Mar). Jane Austen dies at Winchester (July 28); buried in Winchester Cathedral.
• 1817: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion published by Murray (Dec).

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