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• Jane Austen — A watercolour and pencil sketch of Jane, believed to have been drawn from life by her sister …   Wikipedia

• Reception history of Jane Austen — The reception history of Jane Austen s works follows a path from modest fame to wild popularity. Jane Austen, an early nineteenth century British novelist, authored works such as Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1815). Her novels have become… …   Wikipedia

• A Memoir of Jane Austen — Victorianized portrait of Jane Austen produced for the Memoir A Memoir of Jane Austen is a biography of the novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) published in 1869 by her nephew James Edward Austen Leigh. A second edition was published in 1871 which… …   Wikipedia

• Austen, Jane — born Dec. 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, Eng. died July 18, 1817, Winchester, Hampshire English novelist. The daughter of a rector, she lived in the circumscribed world of minor landed gentry and country clergy that she was to use in her… …   Universalium

• Jane Taylor — Infobox Writer name = Jane Taylor birthdate = birth date|1783|9|23|mf=y birthplace = London, England deathdate = death date and age|1824|4|13|1783|9|23|mf=y occupation = Poet movement = RomanticismJane Taylor (September 23, 1783 April 13, 1824),… …   Wikipedia

• Bibliography of works by W. Somerset Maugham — The following is a bibliography of the works of W. Somerset Maugham, one of the most prolific and popular English writers of the 20th century. Novels, travel, criticism, assorted non fiction pamphlets ref|stott1 * Liza of Lambeth (1897) * The… …   Wikipedia

• The Way of All Flesh (novel) — Infobox Book name = The Way of All Flesh title orig = translator = image caption = author = Samuel Butler illustrator = cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = genre = Semi Autobiographical novel publisher = Grant… …   Wikipedia

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the eighteenth century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft… …   Wikipedia

• Stratford Shakespeare Festival production history — The Stratford Shakespeare Festival (formerly known as the Stratford Festival of Canada) is a summer long celebration of theatre held each year in Stratford, Ontario. [ [http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/story/2007/07/17/stratford festival.html CBC… …   Wikipedia

• Rumford fireplace — The Rumford fireplace is a tall, shallow fireplace designed by Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, born 1753 in Woburn, Massachusetts, an Anglo American physicist who was known for his investigations of heat.Rumford applied his knowledge of… …   Wikipedia

• novel — novel1 novellike, adj. /nov euhl/, n. 1. a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes. 2. (formerly) novella (def. 1). [1560 70; …   Universalium