Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters Part 56

1814 [May] _Mansfield Park._ A novel. In three volumes. By the author of _Sense and Sensibility_ and _Pride and Prejudice_. London: printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1814. 12mo.

[Vols. I and III were printed by G. Sidney, Northumberland Street, Strand; Vol. II by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar.]

1815 [Dec.] _Emma._ A novel. In three volumes. By the author of _Pride and Prejudice_, &c., &c. London: printed for John Murray, 1816. 12mo.

[Vols. I and II were printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar; Vol. III by J. Moyes, Greville Street, Hatton Garden, London.]

1816 [Feb.] _Mansfield Park._ A novel. In three volumes. By the author of _Pride and Prejudice_. Second edition. London: printed for J. Murray, Albemarle Street, 1816. 12mo.

[Vols. I and III were printed by J. Moyes, Greville Street, Hatton Garden, London; Vol. II by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar.]

1817 _Pride and Prejudice._ A novel. In two volumes.

By the author of _Sense and Sensibility_, &c.

Third edition. London: printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1817. 12mo.

[Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar.]

1818 _Northanger Abbey_ and _Persuasion_. By the author of _Pride and Prejudice_, _Mansfield Park_, &c.

With a biographical notice of the author. In four volumes. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1818. 12mo.

[Vols. I and II, containing _Northanger Abbey_, were printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar; Vols. III and IV, containing _Persuasion_, by T. Davison, Lombard Street, Whitefriars, London.]

1824 _L'Abbaye de Northanger_; traduit de l'anglais de Jeanne Austen, auteur d'_Orgueil et Prejuge_, du _Parc de Mansfield_, de la _Famille Elliott_, de la Nouvelle _Emma_, &c. Par Mme. Hyacinthe de F.**** [Ferrieres]. 3 tom. Paris. Pigoreau.

12mo.

[There is a short 'Notice biographique' taken from the English edition.]

1833 _Novels by Miss Jane Austen._ 'Standard Novels'

series. Five volumes. London: Richard Bentley.

8vo.

[This series contains a set of steel engravings--two to each novel, a frontispiece and a vignette after Pickering. _Sense and Sensibility_ contains a biographical notice (by Henry Austen), which includes a few facts not mentioned in the preface to the original edition of _Northanger Abbey_.]

1870 _A Memoir of Jane Austen._ By her nephew, J. E.

Austen Leigh. London: Richard Bentley & Son.

pp. 236. 8vo.

1871 _A Memoir of Jane Austen._ By her nephew, J. E.

Austen Leigh. Second edition; to which is added _Lady Susan_ and fragments of two other unfinished tales by Miss Austen. London: Richard Bentley & Son. pp. 364. 8vo.

1880 _Jane Austen and her Works._ By Sarah Tytler.

London: Ca.s.sell, Petter, Galpin & Co. pp. viii-386.

8vo.

[This contains a Life drawn from the _Memoir_, and a resume of each of the novels.]

1882 _Jane Austen's Novels._ Steventon Edition. Five volumes. London: Richard Bentley & Son. 8vo.

1883 _A Book of Sibyls._ By Anne Isabella Thackeray.

London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. vi-229. 8vo.

['Jane Austen,' pp. 197-229.]

1884 _Letters of Jane Austen._ Edited, with an introduction and critical remarks, by Edward, Lord Brabourne. Two volumes. London: Richard Bentley & Son.

[This includes: (1) a series of letters from Jane to Ca.s.sandra; (2) letters from Jane to f.a.n.n.y Knight; (3) letters from Jane to Anna Austen (Mrs. B. Lefroy); and (4) two letters from Ca.s.sandra to f.a.n.n.y Knight, just after Jane's death.]

1885 _Dictionary of National Biography._ London: Smith, Elder & Co. 'Jane Austen,' by L[eslie]. S[tephen].

[This account, based on the _Memoir_ and the _Letters_ (which latter are said to be trivial and to give no new facts), is accurate: except in stating that Jane was the youngest of seven children, and that she went to Castle Square, Southampton, in 1805.]

1886 _Letters to Dead Authors._ By Andrew Lang. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 8vo.

['To Jane Austen,' pp. 75-85.]

1888 _Chapters from Jane Austen._ Edited by Oscar Fay Adams. Boston: Lee & Shepard.

1889 _Jane Austen._ By S. F. Malden [Mrs. Charles Malden].

'Eminent Women' series. London: W. H.

Allen. pp. 210. 8vo.

[Much s.p.a.ce is devoted to an abstract of the novels.]

1890 _Life of Jane Austen._ By Goldwin Smith. 'Great Writers' series. London: Walter Scott.

pp. 195-v. 8vo.

[Contains a bibliography compiled by J. P.

Anderson.]

1891 _The Story of Jane Austen's Life._ By Oscar Fay Adams. Chicago: A. D. McClurg & Co.

pp. v-277. 8vo.

[Includes a bibliography.]

1892 _The Novels of Jane Austen._ Edited by R. Brimley Johnson; with ill.u.s.trations by William Cubit Cooke, and ornaments by F. C. Tilney. Ten volumes. London: J. M. Dent & Co.

[The first volume of _Sense and Sensibility_ contains an account of Jane Austen, pp. xi-x.x.xi. This was the first really independent issue of the novels--Bentley's edition having previously held the field. Mr. Johnson, as a rule, followed the text of the latest edition which appeared in the author's lifetime. Unfortunately, his printers introduced a good many new misprints of their own.]

1894 _Pride and Prejudice._ With a preface by George Saintsbury, and ill.u.s.trations by Hugh Thomson.

London: George Allen. pp. xxvii-476. 8vo.

1895 _Charades, etc. Written a Hundred Tears Ago._ By Jane Austen and her family. London: Spottiswoode & Co. pp. 34. 8vo.

1895 _Duologues and Scenes from the Novels of Jane Austen, arranged and adapted for Drawing-room Performance._ By Rosina Filippi (Mrs. Dowson); with ill.u.s.trations by Miss Fletcher. London: J. M.

Dent & Co. pp. xv-139. 8vo.

1895-7 _Jane Austen's Novels._ With ill.u.s.trations by Hugh Thomson [but _Pride and Prejudice_ is ill.u.s.trated by C. E. Brock] and introductions by Austin Dobson. Five volumes. London: Macmillan & Co. 8vo.

[These volumes were afterwards (1902-4) reprinted and issued in Macmillan's 'Ill.u.s.trated Pocket Cla.s.sics.']