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One of the most important novelists of the Romantic Period, with a significance and a following that continue strong to this day, Austen was uninterested in the Gothic except as an object of parody. Her early novel Northanger Abbey is a wonderful Gothic satire—one which demonstrates a real knowledge of the genre, and its excesses. Northanger Abbey specifically mentions a number of genuine Gothics, often referred to as the
Northanger novels.
Sites:
Jane Austen InfoPage
One of the richer Austen sites in existence: biography, bibliographies, etexts galore, Jane's letters, articles and discussions of all sorts, including historical and
social context. If it's Austen, it's here. [Henry Churchyard]
Jane Austen Society of North America
Includes an online journal, Persuasions, devoted to Austen studies
Jane Austen Centre in Bath
Self-billed as "a new permanent exhibition which tells the story of Jane's Bath experience - the effect that living here had on her and her writing." You can find out more, I suppose, by subscribing to their magazine, Jane Austen's Regency World, or can have your picture taken, while visiting the Centre, dressed as an Austen character. Jane Lives!
Jane Austen
Biographical essay, etexts, and more. [Literature Post]
Jane Austen Society of Australia
Includes a biography, chronology, and a useful links page.
Biographical note
Includes links to contextual info. [BBC History]
Brief biographical note
[Peter Landry, Biographies]
Biographical note
[The Authors Calendar]
Brief biographical note
Part of the PBS website for the 2002 production of Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters.
Brief biographical note
[Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartleby]
Brief biographical note
[Internet Book List]
Brief biographical note
[Gothic Labyrinth]
Brief biographical note
[John W. Cousins, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, 1910]
Austen Hyper-Concordance
Part of the The Victorian Literary Studies Archive, this concordance allows you to search etexts of Austen's novels, including Northanger Abbey.
Jane Austen
Etexts (only) at the U of Maryland.
Portraits
[National Portrait Gallery, London]
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Written in 1798-99, the heyday of the Gothic novel, Austen's masterful and genuinely comic parody of the Gothic's excesses of sentimentality and imagination wasn't published until 1818, a year after her death.
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