Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… XVIII’ [The Netherfield Ball], Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (London: George Allen, 1894), p. 113. Abstract As a novelist of manners and an acute observer of human interactions, Jane Austen analysed the implications of late Georgian … into the boisterous satire of Austen’s teenage writings and informs the more sophisticated social play of her mature novels, most particularly Emma (1815). Socially, the Austens were on the margins of the gentry class, with limited income … a close circle of female relations and friends who read, responded to and encouraged the progress of her six completed novels. Although she published anonymously – her first novel Sense and Sensibility (1811) was ‘By a Lady’ – Austen …
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