Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
Page 36
as artist 33
on banknote 11
in Bath 12, 15, 35–6, 41–2
biographical details 12
candour 305–6
at Chawton 5, 14, 80, 119, 209–11
Cobbett compared with 239
critics on 24–6, 259–60, 310
death 292, 297–9
final illness 291–3, 294–6
funeral and burial 300–4, 308–9
as never married 68
novels
editing 29
publication 12
speaking for Jane 310–11
see also individual works
obituaries 304–6
poetry 18, 297
religious beliefs 200–1, 306–7
romantic stories about 27–8
in Southampton (Castle Square) 1–9, 14–15, 291
at Steventon 14, 71–2, 113–15
will 301
Austen-Leigh, Caroline 28
Austen-Leigh, James-Edward 113, 295–6
A Memoir of Jane Austen 26–7, 75
Austen, Marianne 164
Austen, Mary (wife of Frank) 17
Austen, Mary (wife of James) 28, 72, 76, 81, 113, 298
Austen, Mary-Jane 8, 9
Austen, Philadelphia 6, 13, 106
Austen, Rebecca 50
Austen, William (nephew of Jane) 36
B
baronets 135
Bates, Miss 136, 236, 245–6, 249–50
Bates, Mrs 73, 236, 245, 247
Bath 277–8
Austens in 12, 15, 35–6, 41–2
in Persuasion 274–5, 276–7, 290
Beckford, Margaret 188
Beckford, William 188
Becoming Jane 28, 116
bedrooms 45–6
The Beggar’s Petition 62–3
Belinda 21, 40, 43, 294
Belle, Dido Elizabeth 173–4
Bennet, Elizabeth 77
and Darcy 137, 138–40, 143–5, 149, 150, 151–6, 157–9
and Lady Catherine 139
and militia 126, 127
as radical 155–6
unconventionality 154, 158
walking alone 128
and Wickham 138, 141
Bennet, Jane 136, 141, 147, 153
Bennet, Kitty 126
Bennet, Lydia 125–7, 140–1, 154, 155, 160
Bennet, Mary 130
Bennet, Mr 77–8, 141, 146–7, 152, 155
Bennet, Mrs 126, 145–7, 150, 152, 155, 159
Benwick, Captain 280, 284
Bertram, Edmund 181, 189, 191–2, 202–4, 207
Bertram, Julia 185, 190
Bertram, Lady 169, 179
Bertram, Maria 169, 171, 181, 183–4, 185, 187–8
Bertram, Sir Thomas 169, 177, 179–80, 186, 189, 204, 207
Bertram, Tom 177
Bible Society 196, 197–8, 200–1
Bickerton, Miss 231
Bigeon, Madame 301
Bigg, Catherine 221
Bigg-Wither, Harris 27–8, 29
Bingley, Miss (and sister) 129, 142, 143, 149
Bingley, Mr 136, 140, 143, 145–7, 149–50, 153, 158
The Birthday 42, 44
Blackstone, William 92, 234
Blue Beard 42
Brabourne, Lord 29
Brandon, Colonel 88, 98, 103–4, 106–12, 121
‘brass’ 87
Bride and Prejudice 116
Brighton 122, 126–7, 129
British Critic 165–6, 205–6
Brontë, Charlotte 25–6, 49, 221
Buckland, Reverend William 256
Burke, Edmund 105, 131–4, 136, 144, 155
Burney, Fanny 30, 43, 134, 309
see also Camilla; Evelina
Byrne, Paula 174, 191
Byron, Lord 166
C
Cadell, Thomas 78
Caesarean section 50
Caleb Williams 44
Camilla 40, 43, 57, 148, 293
Campbell, Colonel 246
Caroline of Brunswick 249
Catherine, or the Bower 105
Cecilia 40, 130
census-taking 218
chain and the cross 195–6
chains 190, 195
Chandos, Dukes of 75
Chapman, R.W. 224
Chapone, Hester 158
Charles I, King 269
Charles II, King 268–9
Charlotte, Princess 50, 271–2
Chatham 122
Chawton Cottage 5, 14, 80, 119, 209–11
Chester, Bishop of 193–4
childbirth 46–7, 48–50, 52
in fiction 51
Church of England
challenges as institution 196–7
failings 202–6, 307–8
and slavery 192–6, 201, 204, 308
and tithes 214–15, 227
Churchill, Frank 228, 231–3, 238, 239, 246–7, 249, 263
Churchill, Winston 119, 120–1
Clare, John 220, 224
Clarkson, Thomas 177–9, 187, 194–5, 201
Clay, Mrs 277, 282, 285, 289
clergy 137
Cobbett, William 239
Codrington, Christopher 192
Cole, Mr 233, 244–5
Cole, Mrs 244–5
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 19, 221
Collins, Charlotte (née Lucas) 137, 139, 142, 151
Collins, Mr 137–8, 155, 214
common land 215–17, 221
consumption 52
Cooke, Samuel 229
Cooper, Edward 200, 300
Cooper, Jane 2, 123, 261, 266, 282, 288
co-parceny 234
Corn Laws 219
Cornwallis, Admiral 188
cousins, marriage between 171
Cowper, William 79, 180, 181–2, 237
Cox, Mr 233, 242
Crawford, Henry 170, 171, 183, 199, 202–3
Crawford, Mary 75, 183, 187, 188–9, 202–3
Critical Review 165, 303
Croft, Admiral 123, 271, 288
Croft, Mrs 123, 271, 288
Crosby, Benjamin 4, 6
Crosby, Richard 7–8, 17, 309–10
Crosby (publishing firm) 40–1
cross and the chain 195–6
Cumberland, Richard 186
Cuvier, Georges 253
D
Dalrymple, Lady 272–3
Darcy, Fitzwilliam 135, 136–7, 140, 157–61
and Elizabeth 137, 138–40, 143–5, 149, 150, 151–6, 159–61
snobbery 142–5, 149–51, 157, 161
Darcy, Georgiana 40, 160
Darwin, Erasmus 256–8
Dashwood, Elinor 81, 88, 92–4, 96, 102–3
and Edward Ferrars 92, 94, 96, 100, 102, 112
and wealth 97–8
Dashwood, Fanny 81, 91, 93–4
Dashwood, Harry 83, 90
Dashwood, John 83, 88, 90–1, 93, 110
Dashwood, Margaret 81
Dashwood, Marianne 79, 81, 85, 92–3
and Brandon 111–12
and wealth 97–8
and Willoughby 89, 95, 96, 100, 103, 111
Dashwood, Mrs 91, 93, 98, 103
dates, in Jane’s novels 262–7
Davinier, John 174
De Bourgh, Anne 91
De Bourgh, Lady Catherine 91, 121, 135, 137–40, 155, 160–1, 214
death penalty 228
Denham, Sir Edward 293
Dixon, Mr 123
Donwell 232–3
Duckworth, Alistair 226
E
earls 135
East India Company 104–5, 106, 168
Easton, Celia 226
eclampsia 49–50
ectopic pregnancy 49
Eden, Sir Frederick Morton 220
Edgeworth, Maria 21, 43, 45, 123, 134, 211, 294, 309
Edwards, Bryan 194
Egerton 166
Elegant Extracts 184
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate La
dy 63
Elford, Sir William 157
Elinor and Marianne 9, 78–9
Elizabeth I, Queen 270
Elliot, Anne 38, 120, 123, 200, 259–61, 280–8, 290
and Bath 274, 277–8
as self-portrait of Jane 259–61, 310
and Wentworth 264, 273, 277, 280, 281, 285–9
Elliot, Elizabeth 259, 267, 277, 280, 282, 284–5
Elliot, Sir Walter 259, 264–5, 267, 271–3, 277, 281–2, 284, 290
Elliot, William 280, 281–2, 286–7
Elton, Mr 230, 243, 245, 248
Elton, Mrs 189, 190, 236, 243–4, 245
Emma 211–50
as about need 227
on enclosure 228–35, 248–9
introductions in 148
reviews 166–7
servants in 241–2
timeframe 263
Emmeline 142, 255–6
enclosure 204, 217–22, 228–30
in Jane’s novels 222–7, 228–35, 248–9
entails 82–4
Evelina 42–3, 89, 130, 142, 153
Evelyn, Mr 42
F
Fairfax, Jane 73, 236, 242, 246, 247, 249
The Fatal Secret 64
Fawkes, Guy 266
Feltham, John 254
feme covert 91
Ferrars, Edward 88, 89, 92–4, 98–102, 112
Ferrars, Mrs 92–4, 98–9
Ferrars, Robert 88, 93–4, 99
fidelity 280–1
Fielding, Henry 116
firewood 216, 218
First Impressions 9, 16, 78, 113, 129
Fishguard 122
Fitzgerald, Lord Edward 124
Fitzwilliam, Colonel 135, 136–7, 140
Fitzwilliam, Earl 136
food 211, 227, 235–6
cost of 212–13
Foote, Samuel 104
Fordyce, James 158
Forster, Colonel 128
fossils 252–3, 254–5, 257, 276
Fox, Charles James 23
France, war with 21–2
Francklyn, Gilbert 194–5
Frank (slave) 177
French Revolution 130–3, 180
G
Gambier, Admiral 114
Gardiner, Mr 140–2, 144–5, 160, 175
Gardiner, Mrs 140–1, 144–5, 160
Garson, Greer 120
George III, King 271
George, Prince Regent 205, 249, 272, 303
Gifford, William 166–7
gipsies 210, 217, 228, 230–2, 236–9, 247–9
Goddard, Mrs 246–7
Godwin, William 44, 64, 87, 134
‘Gordon Riots’ 131
gossip 136–7
Gothic novels 39, 40, 53–5, 57, 61, 68
Gould, Mr 42–3
grandparents 73
Grant, Dr 168, 188–9
Great Bookham 229
Grey, Sophia 89–91
gruel 211
H
habeas corpus 22, 130
hair 100
hairstyles 170
The Hare and Many Friends 62
Harville, Captain 276, 280–1, 290
Hastings, Warren 99, 105–6, 131, 132
Hawkins Browne, Isaac 187
Hays, Mary 21
Heathcote, Mrs 295, 307
hedgerows 191
Highbury 24, 228–34, 242–3, 245, 248
history, tide of 289
History of England 9, 27, 262, 270
Hochschild, Adam 175, 181, 193
Hodges, Mrs 242
Hutton, James 256
hyperemesis 49
I
incest 171
India 88, 103–6
ingenuity 118
inheritance 74–6, 82, 84–7
interracial relationships 43
intestacy 74
introductions 145–52
invasion, threat of 122–3
Ireland 122–4, 131
J
Jacobite rebellions 270–1
James I, King 266
James II, King 267
Jane Austen House Museum 14, 80, 119
The Janeites 119, 260
Jane’s Marriage 260
Jennings, Mrs 90, 91, 94, 98, 103, 139
The Jewel in the Crown 120
jewellery 88
jointure 74, 91
K
Kent, Nathaniel 220
Kipling, Rudyard 119, 260
Kirby Hall 174
Knight, Fanny (née Austen) 163–5, 200, 209–10, 302
letters to 44, 50, 87, 200, 259, 291, 296
Knightley, George 229–30, 232–6, 243–4, 246, 248–9
and Emma 228, 232, 234, 247–8
Knightley, Isabella (née Woodhouse) 228, 234–5
Knightley, John 234–5
Knightley, Keira 116
knowledge, classes of 32
Kotzebue, August von 42, 44, 186
L
Labbe, Professor Jacqueline 256
Lady Susan 16, 36
Lambe, Miss 292, 293
land, importance of 73–4
Larkin, William 232, 242
Lascelles, Lady 188
Latin 76
Le Faye, Deirdre 29, 266
Lefroy, Anne 261, 265, 282, 288
Lefroy, Ben 201
Lefroy, Tom 27, 28–9, 32, 123
Leigh, Jane 72, 73
Leigh, Thomas 73, 75
Leigh-Perrot, James 177, 299–300
Leinster, Duchess of 45
Letters 28–9
Lewes, George Henry 25, 26
Lindsay, John 173
Liverpool, Lord 197, 205
livings 192
Lloyd, Martha 81, 113
Lodge, David 65
Long, Edward 176
Longfellow, Henry 25
Lord Ellenborough’s Act 48
Love and Freindship 9, 272, 293
Lovers’ Vows 42
Lucas, Sir William 135, 142, 150, 151–2
Lyford, Dr 291, 295, 296, 297
Lyme Regis 251–7, 269, 274–6, 290
M
Macaulay, Thomas 25
magistrates 215
malleability 282
Malthus, Reverend Thomas 218
manors 213–14, 216
Mansfield, Lord 173, 175–6, 180
Mansfield Park 165–207
as about enclosure 223–7
as about ordination 190–1
as about slavery 174, 176–7, 179–80, 181–2, 184–90
film 174
introductions in 148
lack of reviews 165, 167–8, 205–6
as political novel 30
publication 165
servants in 241
as sober novel 168
timespan 179–80
Mapleton, Marianne 69
Marmion 117, 118, 160
marriage
in Jane’s time 31, 234–5
proposals 143
settlements 90–1
Martin, Robert 232–3, 245, 246, 247
Mary I, Queen 270
Mary II, Queen 267, 270
Mary, Queen of Scots 270
Masters of Ceremonies 147, 148
masturbation 47, 66–7
Meryton 125, 127–8, 145, 147, 149
Middleton, Annamaria 89, 110
Middleton, Sir John 103
Middleton, John (son of Sir John) 110
Middleton, William 110
militia 125–8, 212, 218
‘Miss Catherine’ 36–7, 44
Mitford, Mary Russell 156–7
Monmouth, Duke of 269
More, Hannah 237
Morland, Catherine
and ‘alarms of romance’ 70
in bedrooms 44, 46, 65–7
character 37–8
and chest in bedroom 58–9
Henry Tilney and 37, 39, 56–8, 60–1, 66, 68
reading 39, 53–64, 70
Morland, James 55–6
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Morland, Mrs 52
Morton, Miss 94
Munro, Henry 124
Murray, Anne 173
Murray, Elizabeth 173–4
Murray, John 166–7, 303
Musgrove, Charles 265, 267, 279–80, 282, 284
Musgrove, Henrietta 279–80, 283
Musgrove, Louisa 259, 261, 276, 279–80, 282–4
Musgrove, Mary 51, 265, 267, 279–80, 284, 290
The Mysteries of Udolpho 53–5, 56–62, 63, 64, 96–7
N
The Nabob 104–5
Napoleon Bonaparte 263–4, 288, 289
national identity 274
Nibbs, James 177
nobility, in Jane’s novels 134–5
Norris, Henry Handley 197–9, 201, 205–6, 259, 307
Norris, Mrs 169, 171, 177–8, 183, 188–9, 198–9, 241
Norris, Reverend Mr (Mansfield Park) 168
Norris, Robert (of Liverpool) 178–9, 194, 197–8
North, Brownlow 302–3, 307–8
Northamptonshire 223–4
Northanger Abbey 16, 17, 36–70, 117
bedroom scenes 65–7
as comic 53
on history 34
introductions in 148
publication 36
review 64
see also Susan
novels
as genre 116–17
Jane on 39–40
O
Olivier, Laurence 120
ordination 190–1
P
Paine, Thomas 124
Palmer, Frances 177
Palmer, Harriet 177
Palmer, Mrs 51
Palmer, Thomas 110
Pamela 110, 159
Papillon, Mr 200
parable of the talents 77
parish system 213–15
Perry, Mr 242, 249
Perry, Ruth 216–17
Persuasion 258–90
change as theme 274–80, 284–8
conclusion 19, 120, 288–90
dates in 262–7
introductions in 148–9
names in 267–70
temporal setting 262, 263–4
as unfinished 258–9
war in 120
Phillips, Mrs 159
Pitt, William 117
‘plate’ 88
Plumptre, John 164, 200, 201
pluralism 192, 204, 227
politics, Jane on 117–18
pollards 230
poor rates 215, 216, 220
population growth 217–18, 219
pregnancy 46–50
in Jane’s novels 50–2, 68–70
prejudice 130, 133–4, 161
The Prelude 133
Price, Betsey 199
Price, Fanny 168–72, 179, 185, 195, 199–200, 207, 261
and Edmund Bertram 189, 202–3, 207
as reader 180–1
Price, Mary 199
Price, Mr 169–70
Price, William 168, 169, 202
pride 130, 161
Pride and Prejudice 16, 115–61
editing 29, 129
films 116, 120–1
introductions in 145–52
names in 134
publication 190–1
reviews 165
as revolutionary novel 138–9, 160–1
servants in 240–1
setting 129–30
television series 115–16
war in 121–2
see also First Impressions
primogeniture 75, 84–5, 94