Murfin, Jane 215–16
Murray, John (publisher) 68–9, 71, 73, 74–5, 76, 86, 87, 89, 99, 103–4
National Trust 2, 221, 260
Neagle, Anna 219–20
The New Rosciad (Leigh, J.H.) 25
New York Times 2–3, 211, 253
Newman, Thomas Harding 152
Nicolson, Harold 207
Night Thoughts (Young, E.) 181
Nixon, Cheryl L. 263
Nokes, David 237
Norfolk, Andrew 269
Northanger Abbey (Austen, J.) 1, 27, 33, 104, 235 copyright expiry on 120
Metcalfe edition 193
posthumous publication with Biographical Notice 89–90
Queen Victoria’s reading of 121
remaindering of 99
‘Susan,’ first version 33, 37–9, 43, 47–8
Northanger Abbey (ITV) 258, 260
Notes & Queries 120, 204, 238
Nouvelle revue française 178
Novels of Jane Austen (Chapman, R.W.) 193, 196–7, 206
Nuts 256
O’Connor, Frances 264–5
The Odd Women (Gissing, G.) 171
O’Farrell, Mary Ann 267
Old Friends and New Fancies (Brinton, S.G.) 266
Oliphant, Margaret 3–4, 150–51, 155–6, 159, 228, 243–4
Olivier, Laurence 217
Opie, Mrs Amelia 98
O’Rourke, Sally Smith 267
Oxenden, Mary 59
Paget, Lady Augusta 53, 87
Palmer, Harriet 223
Paltrow, Gwyneth 257
Payne and Cadell, Publishers 27, 32
Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman (Bulwer-Lytton, E.G.E.L.) 94
Pellew, George 166
Pemberley, Republic of 277
Pemberley (Tennant, E.) 266
Penney, Christine 73
Personal Aspects of Jane Austen (Austen-Leigh, M.A.) 76, 179–80
Persuasion (Austen, J.) 1, 33, 104, 246 beginnings of 76–7
copyright expiry on 120
posthumous publication with Biographical Notice 89–90
remaindering of 99
wartime references in 274
Persuasion (BBC TV) 257
Persuasion (ITV) 258
The Pilot (Cooper, J.F.) 107
Pinter, Harold 236
The Pioneers (Cooper, J.F.) 98
Piper, Billie 265
Plunkett, Walter 216
Poe, Edgar Allan 166
Poems of the North (Brett-Smith, H.F.) 183
Poetical Register 16
Pollock, Sir Frederick 187
Poovey, Mary 235
A Portrait of Jane Austen (Cecil, D.) 229–30
Potter, Beatrix 221
Precaution (Cooper, J.F.) 97, 98–9
Pride and Prejudice (Austen, J.) 104, 235, 246, 264 ‘book the nation can’t do without’ 4
copyright expiry on 120
‘Darcy-philia’ 60
‘First Impressions,’ first version 27–8, 31–2, 36–7, 49, 51
Metcalfe edition 192–3
opening sentence 3
referred to as best of Austen’s writing 74
remaindering of 99–100
rights to 103
second edition published 67
Pride and Prejudice (BBC TV) 254, 260–61
Pride and Prejudice (Joe Wright film) 257
Pride and Prejudice (Robert Z. Leonard film) 215–17, 260
Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen (Eckstut, A.) 268
Prior, Matthew 181
Proust, Marcel 206
Pushkin, Alexander 97
Quarterly Review 73, 89–90
Queen Victoria see Victoria
Quincy, Eliza 124, 134, 148
Radcliffe, Anne Ward 12, 33, 40
Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder 236
Raleigh, Professor Sir Walter 192, 201–2, 249, 250
The Rambler 21
The Real Jane Austen (BBC TV) 261
The Regency Rules (Henderson, L.) 253
Retrospective Review 91
Review of English Studies 238
La Revue blanche 176, 177, 178
Rhydderch, David 164
Rice, Elizabeth 135
Rice, Revd John Morland 152
‘Rice Portrait’, 152–3, 177, 209, 313n69
Richardson, Samuel 27, 41, 90, 248
Rickword, Edgell 226
Rigler, Laurie 272
Robinson, Henry Crabbe 109
Robinson, John Mackinnon 199
Robson of Bond Street (publisher) 27
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 217–18
Rosebery, Archibald Philip
Primrose, Earl 208
Routledge (publishers) 159
Royal Academy 63
Rozema, Patricia 236, 264
Said, Edward 235
St Clair, William 34
Saintsbury, George 159, 160–61, 162, 170–71, 201
Sand, George 176
Sandford, Henry 111
‘Sanditon’ (Austen, J.) 9, 50, 115, 124, 127, 148, 204, 275 beginnings of as ‘The Brothers’ 67, 78–9
Chapman and 193–4
James Edward and access to 132
Sassoon, Siegfried 181, 223
Saturday Night Live (NBC TV) 258
Saxton, Eugene 215
Scacchi, Greta 259
School for Scandal (Sheridan, R.B.) 24
Scott, Sir Walter 51, 62, 73–4, 85, 92, 109–10, 140, 174, 201, 274
Scrutiny 228–9
Sedgwick, Eve 236
Self-Control (Brunton, M.) 52
The Semi-Attached Couple (Eden, E.) 94
Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee film) 257, 258–9
Sense and Sensibility (Austen, J.) 44, 104, 273–4 copyright expiry on 120
‘Elinor and Marianne,’ first version 27, 31, 37, 49
French translation of 96
remaindering of 99
rewrites and first publication of 50–52
second edition published 67
Sense and Sensibility (ITV) 258
Seurat, Georges 178
Sex and the City (HBO TV) 253
Shakespeare, William 6, 61, 108, 121, 128, 137, 202–3, 217
Sharp, Anne 223
Shearer, Norma 214
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 24, 60, 106, 113
Shervington, Diana 213
Shields, Carol 36
Shirreff, Miss (ardent fan of Jane’s writing) 60, 113
Sibleys, Misses of West Meon 34
Silhouette Romances 247
Simpson, Richard 150, 202, 274
Sir Charles Grandison (Richardson, S.) 27, 41, 50
Smiles, Samuel 68
Smiley, Sir Hugh and Lady 232
Smith, Charlotte 12
Smith, Goldwin 199
Smith, Lori 276–7
Smith, Sidney 109
Smith, Charlotte 157
Sonnets and Other Poems (Brydges, S.E.) 16–17
Soofi, Mayank Austen 5–6
Sotheby’s 208, 223
Sourcebooks 267
Southam, Brian 77, 201, 238
Southey, Robert 109, 110–11, 113, 144–5
The Spectator 21, 147, 150
Spence, Jon 261
The Spy (Cooper, J.F.) 107
Staël, Anne Louise, Madame de 66, 106
Stalin, Josef 218
Stanhope, Philip Henry, Lord 149
Stephen, Leslie 157, 161, 171, 201, 203, 205
Stevens, Dana 253
Stevenson, Robert Louis 177
Steventon, Hampshire 59, 82, 100–101, 130, 162, 173, 179, 187, 305n23, 306n55 Jane’s birth and life in 11, 13, 19, 21, 24, 29–30, 33, 37, 44, 54–5
Rectory at 34, 134, 138–9, 141, 197
Steventon & Manydown Reading
Society 34
Strachey, Lytton 205
Studies on Hysteria (Freud, S.) 171
Sunday Times 255
Survivor (CBS TV) 267
‘Susan’ (Austen, J.) 33, 37, 47, 49, 51, 67, 86 manuscript of, changes in 77–8
publication problems 42–5
see also Northanger Abbey
Sutherland, Kathryn 50, 193
Tailhade, Laurent 175
Tanner, Tony 228
Tatler 21
Tauchnitz (German publishers) 174
Temple Bar 172
Tennant, Emma 266
Tennyson, Alfred 121
Thackeray, Anne 150, 242, 276
Thackeray, William Makepeace 120, 177, 260
Thalberg, Irving 214
Thompson, Emma 258–9
Thompson, Sophie 259
Thomson, Hugh 160, 264
Thrale, Hester Lynch (later Mrs Piozzi) 108
The Times 194, 269
Times Literary Supplement (TLS) 195, 204, 237
Tomalin, Claire 4–5
The Topographer 29
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri 178
Trayler, Helen 253–4
Trilling, Lionel 7, 219, 228, 234, 236, 279
Troost, Linda 263
Twain, Mark 164–6
Twitchell, Joseph 165
Tytler, Sarah 156
An Unequal Marriage (Tennant, E.) 266
Vallotton, Félix 178
The Vicar of Wakefield (Goldsmith, O.) 165
Victoria, Queen 2, 121, 151
Villard, Leonie 179
Vuillard, Edouard 178
A Walk with Jane Austen (Smith, L.) 276–7
Walkley, A.B. 190
Wall Street Journal 257
The Wanderer (Burney, F.) 54, 71, 108
Ward, Mrs Humphrey 151
‘The Watsons’ (Austen, J.) 41, 45, 50, 79, 115, 122, 124, 132, 148, 193–4, 204, 208beginnings of 44
manuscript 50
Watt, Ian 166, 228
Waugh, Alec 181
Waverley (Scott, W.) 62
Webster & Co. (publishers) 165
Wellington, Gerald Wellesley, Duke of 232
Werksman, Deb 267
West, Rebecca 201
Whately, Richard, Archbishop of Dublin 89–91
Whitbread, Samuel 60
White, John 117–18
Wilde, Oscar 176–7
Williams, Olivia 259, 266
Williams, Raymond 228, 233
Wilson, Edmund 6, 228
Winchester, Hampshire 79–80, 81, 83, 162–4
Winchester CathedralJane Austen’s tomb, questions on whereabouts of 81–2, 153
memorial tablet in 153–4, 163
Wired (blog) 269
Wollstonecraft, Mary 40
Women as They Are (Gore, C.) 94–5
Woolf, Virginia 4, 7, 13, 107, 198, 203, 205, 254
Wordsworth, William 110, 127
Wordsworth editions 253–4
Wuthering Heights (Brontë, E.) 125
Wuthering Heights (William Wyler film) 214
Wyler, William 217
Yellow Book 171, 178
Young, Edward 181
The Young Visiters (Ashford, D.) 194
The Younger Sister (Hubback, C.-A.) 122–4
Zidane, Zinedine 2
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First published in Great Britain in 2009 by Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
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Copyright © Claire Harman, 2009
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