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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her. - Jane Austen Attribution: Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. Emma in Emma, ch. 8 (1816).

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Jane Austen

Titles by Jane Austen:

• Emma
• Persuasion
• Pride and Prejudice
• Sense and Sensibility

Salem on History:

• Jane Austen

Critical Companions:

• Austen, Jane (1775 - 1817) (Gothic Literature)
• Austen, Jane (Feminism)

Videohound Movie Retriever:

• Jane Austen in Manhattan

Encyclopedia:

• Austen, Jane (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Austen, Jane (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Jane Austen (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Jane Austen (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
• Jane Austen (Magill Book Reviews)
• Jane Austen (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
• Jane Austen (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
• Jane Austen (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
• Jane Austen (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
• What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew (Magill Book Reviews)
• The Poetry of Jane Austen and the Austen Family (Magill Book Reviews)
• The Jane Austen Book Club (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

Literary Criticism:

• Special Commissioned Essay on Jane Austen, Julia Epstein (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Jane Austen is born
• Jane Austen publishes Sense and Sensibility
• Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice
• Jane Austen dies