The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Volume VI: Minor Works

by Jane Austen, R. W. Chapman (Editor)

Overview

This collection of all Jane Austen's Minor Works printed from her manuscripts, includes three volumes of high-spirited early efforts (written at about fifteen); Lady Susan; the fragments The Watsons (thought to have been a sketch for Emma) and Sanditon, written in the last year of her life; and a number of impromptu comic verses, and three prayers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192547064
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	11/28/1988
Series:	Oxford Illustrated Austen Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	486
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 4.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

In 1801, George Austen retired from the clergy, and Jane, Cassandra, and their parents took up residence in Bath, a fashionable town Jane liked far less than her native village. Jane seems to have written little during this period. When Mr. Austen died in 1805, the three women, Mrs. Austen and her daughters, moved first to Southampton and then, partly subsidized by Jane's brothers, occupied a house in Chawton, a village not unlike Jane's first home. There she began to work on writing and pursued publishing once more, leading to the anonymous publication of Sense and Sensibility in 1811 and Pride and Prejudice in 1813, to modestly good reviews.

Known for her cheerful, modest, and witty character, Jane Austen had a busy family and social life, but as far as we know very little direct romantic experience. There were early flirtations, a quickly retracted agreement to marry the wealthy brother of a friend, and a rumored short-lived attachment -- while she was traveling -- that has not been verified. Her last years were quiet and devoted to family, friends, and writing her final novels. In 1817 she had to interrupt work on her last and unfinished novel, Sanditon, because she fell ill. She died on July 18, 1817, in Winchester, where she had been taken for medical treatment. After her death, her novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published, together with a biographical notice, due to the efforts of her brother Henry. Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral.

Author biography courtesy of Barnes & Noble Books.

Date of Birth:

December 16, 1775

Date of Death:

July 18, 1817

Place of Birth:

Village of Steventon in Hampshire, England

Place of Death:

Winchester, Hampshire, England

Education:

Taught at home by her father

Table of Contents

I	Juvenilia c. 1787-93	1
	Volume the First	3
	Volume the Second	76
	Volume the Third	179
II	Lady Susan c. 1793-4	243
III	Fragments of Novels
	The Watsons 1804-5	314
	Sanditon 1817	363
IV	Plan of a Novel c. 1816	428
V	Opinions of Mansfield Park and Emma c. 1815-16	431
VI	Verses	440
VII	Prayers	453
	Notes	458
	Indexes	465