by Jane Austen
Critical
Bloom, Harold, ed., Modern Critical Views: Jane Austen (New York, 1986)
Bush, Douglas, Jane Austen (New York, 1975)
Butler, Marilyn, Jane Austen and the War of Ideas (Oxford, 1975)
Craik, W. A., Jane Austen: The Six Novels (London, 1965)
Dadlez, E. M., Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and Hume (Chichester, Sussex, 2009)
Duckworth, Alistair M., The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen’s Novels (Baltimore, 1971)
Dwyer, June, Jane Austen (New York, 1989)
Emsley, Sarah, Jane Austen’s Philosophy of the Virtues (New York, 2005)
Fergus, Jan, Jane Austen and the Didactic Novel: “Northanger Abbey,” “Sense and Sensibility,” and “Pride and Prejudice” (Totowa, NJ, 1983)
Firkins, O. W., Jane Austen (New York, 1947)
Harding, D. W., Regulated Hatred and Other Essays on Jane Austen (London, 1998)
Keener, Frederick M., The Chain of Becoming (New York, 1983)
Kiely, Robert, The Romantic Novel in England (Cambridge, MA, 1972)
Lascelles, Mary, Jane Austen and Her Art (Oxford, 1939)
Litz, A. Walton, Jane Austen: A Study of Her Artistic Development (New York, 1965)
Moler, Kenneth L., Jane Austen’s Art of Illusion (Lincoln, NE, 1968)
Morini, Massimiliano, Jane Austen’s Narrative Techniques (Farnham, Surrey, 2009)
Morris, Ivor, Jane Austen and the Interplay of Character (London, 1999)
Mudrick, Marvin, Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery (Princeton, 1952)
Nardin, Jane, Those Elegant Decorums: The Concept of Propriety in Jane Austen’s Novels (Albany, NY, 1973)
Odmark, John, An Understanding of Jane Austen’s Novels (Oxford, 1981)
Southam, B. C., ed., Northanger Abbey and Persuasion: A Casebook (London, 1976)
Tave, Stuart, Some Words of Jane Austen (Chicago, 1973)
Ten Harmsel, Henrietta, Jane Austen: A Study in Fictional Conventions (The Hague, 1964)
Weisenfarth, Joseph, The Errand of Form: An Assay of Jane Austen’s Art (New York, 1967)
WORKS OF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
General Histories and Reference
Burton, Elizabeth, The Pageant of Georgian England (New York, 1967)
Craik, W. A., Jane Austen in Her Time (London, 1969)
Daunton, M. J., Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain, 1700–1850 (Oxford, 1995)
Halévy, Élie, A History of the English People in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. I: England in 1815, translated by E. I. Watkin and D. A. Barker, 2nd ed. (London, 1949)
Hay, Douglas, and Nicholas Rogers, Eighteenth-Century English Society: Shuttles and Swords (Oxford, 1997)
Hole, Christina, English Home-Life, 1500–1800 (London, 1947)
Langford, Paul, A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727–1783 (Oxford, 1989)
McKendrick, Neil, John Brewer, and J. H. Plumb, eds., The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England (Bloomington, IN, 1982)
Marshall, Dorothy, English People in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1956)
———, Industrial England, 1776–1851 (New York, 1973)
Olsen, Kirstin, All Things Austen: An Encyclopedia of Austen’s World, 2 vols. (Westport, CT, 2005)
Parreaux, André, Daily Life in England in the Reign of George III (London, 1969)
Porter, Roy, English Society in the Eighteenth Century, rev. ed. (London, 1990)
Rule, John, Albion’s People: English Society, 1714–1815 (London, 1992)
Todd, Janet, ed., Jane Austen in Context (New York, 2005)
Turberville, A. S., ed., Johnson’s England: An Account of the Life and Manners of His Age, 2 Vols. (Oxford, 1933)
Language of the Period
Blair, Hugh, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 3 vols. (New York, 1970; reprint of 1785 ed.)
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford, 1971)
Dunkling, Leslie, and William Gosling, The Facts on File Dictionary of First Names (New York, 1983)
Johnson, Samuel, Dictionary of the English Language, ed. Alexander Chalmers (London, 1994; reprint of 1843 ed.)
Lane, Maggie, Jane Austen and Names (Bristol, 2002)
Leonard, Sterling, The Doctrine of Correctness in English Usage, 1700–1800 (New York, 1962)
McIntosh, Carey, The Evolution of English Prose, 1700–1800: Style, Politeness, and Print Culture (Cambridge, 1998)
Page, Norman, The Language of Jane Austen (Oxford, 1972)
Phillipps, K. C., Jane Austen’s English (London, 1970)
Pinion, F. B., A Jane Austen Companion (London, 1973)
Room, Adrian, Dictionary of Changes in Meaning (New York, 1986)
Schapera, I., Kinship Terminology in Jane Austen’s Novels (London, 1977)
Stokes, Myra, The Language of Jane Austen: A Study of Some Aspects of Her Vocabulary (New York, 1991)
Tucker, Susie, Protean Shape: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Vocabulary and Usage (London, 1967)
Cultural and Literary Background
Baker, Ernest, The History of the English Novel, Vol. V: The Novel of Sentiment and the Gothic Romance (London, 1929)
Bate, Walter Jackson, From Classic to Romantic: Premises of Taste in Eighteenth Century England (New York, 1946)
Black, Jeremy, Culture in Eighteenth-Century England: A Subject for Taste (London, 2005)
Bradbrook, Frank W., Jane Austen and Her Predecessors (Cambridge, 1966)
Brewer, John, The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1997)
Clark, Kenneth, The Gothic Revival: An Essay in the History of Taste (London, 1962)
Endelman, Todd M., The Jews of Georgian England, 1714–1830: Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society (Philadelphia, 1979)
Feingold, Richard, Nature and Society: Later Eighteenth-Century Uses of the Pastoral and Georgic (New Brunswick, NJ, 1978)
Felsenstein, Frank, Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture, 1660- 1830 (Baltimore, 1995)
Foster, James R., History of the Pre-Romantic Novel in England (New York, 1949)
Gaull, Marilyn, English Romanticism: The Human Context (New York, 1988)
Jones, Ann H., Ideas and Innovations: Best Sellers of Jane Austen’s Age (New York, 1986)
Jupp, Peter C., and Clare Gittings, eds., Death in England: An Illustrated History (New Brunswick, NJ, 2000)
Kelly, Gary, English Fiction of the Romantic Period, 1789–1830 (London, 1989)
McCalman, Iain, ed., An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776–1832 (Oxford, 1999)
Marder, Louis, His Exits and His Entrances: The Story of Shakespeare’s Reputation (Philadelphia, 1963)
Porter, Roy, The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment (New York, 2000)
Railo, Eino, The Haunted Castle: A Study of the Elements of English Romanticism (New York, 1964)
Smith, David Nichol, Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1928; 1967 reprint)
Spadafora, David, The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-Century Britain (New Haven, 1990)
Sweet, Rosemary, Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain (London, 2004)
Taylor, John Tinnon, Early Opposition to the English Novel: The Popular Reaction from 1760 to 1830 (New York, 1943)
Tompkins, Joyce, The Popular Novel in England, 1770–1800 (Lincoln, NE, 1961)
Varma, Devendra P., Gothic Flame: Being a History of the Gothic Novel in England (New York, 1966)
Watt, Ian, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding (Berkeley, 1957)
Marriage and the Family
Gillis, John R., For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present (New York, 1985)
Jones, Hazel, Jane Austen and Marriage (London, 2009)
Laslett, Peter, T
he World We Have Lost: England Before the Industrial Age, 2nd ed. (New York, 1971)
Stone, Lawrence, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500–1800 (New York, 1977)
Tadmor, Naomi, Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship, and Patronage (Cambridge, 2001)
Trumbach, Randolph, The Rise of the Egalitarian Family: Aristocratic Kinship and Domestic Relations in Eighteenth-Century England (New York, 1978)
The Position of Women
Barker, Hannah, and Elaine Chalus, eds., Women’s History: Britain, 1700–1850: An Introduction (London, 2005)
Brophy, Elizabeth Bergen, Women’s Lives and the 18th-Century English Novel (Tampa, FL, 1991)
Shoemaker, Robert B., Gender in English Society, 1650–1850: The Emergence of Separate Spheres? (London, 1998)
Tague, Ingrid H., Women of Quality: Accepting and Contesting Ideals of Femininity in England, 1690–1760 (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2002)
Vickery, Amanda, The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England (London, 1998)
Children and Child Rearing
Bayne-Powell, Rosamond, The English Child in the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1939)
Fletcher, Anthony, Growing Up in England: The Experience of Childhood, 1600–1914 (New Haven, 2008)
Steward, James Christen, The New Child: British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood (Berkeley, 1995)
Housekeeping and Servants
Adams, Samuel and Sarah, The Complete Servant (Lewes, Sussex, 1989; originally published 1825)
Bayne-Powell, Rosamond, Housekeeping in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1956)
Davidson, Caroline, A Woman’s Work Is Never Done: A History of Housework in the British Isles, 1650– 1950 (London, 1982)
Dillon, Maureen, Artificial Sunshine: A Social History of Domestic Lighting (London, 2002)
Eveleigh, David J., Candle Lighting (Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire,1985)
Hardyment, Christina, Home Comfort: A History of Domestic Arrangements (Chicago, 1992)
Hecht, J. Jean, The Domestic Servant Class in Eighteenth-Century England (London, 1956)
Hill, Bridget, Servants: English Domestics in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1996)
Horn, Pamela, Flunkeys and Scullions: Life Below Stairs in Georgian England (Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2004)
Laing, Alastair, Lighting (London, 1982)
Sambrook, Pamela, The Country House Servant (Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1999)
Turner, E. S., What the Butler Saw: 250 Years of the Servant Problem (New York, 1962)
Wright, Lawrence, Homes Fires Burning: The History of Domestic Heating and Cooking (London, 1964)
Entails and Settlements
English, Barbara, and John Saville, Strict Settlement: A Guide for Historians (Hull, 1983)
Erickson, Amy Louise, Women and Property in Early Modern England (London, 1993)
Habakkuk, John, Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System: English Landownership, 1650–1950 (Oxford, 1994)
Spring, Eileen, Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800 (Chapel Hill, 1993)
Landed Society
Baugh, Daniel A., ed., Aristocratic Government and Society in Eighteenth-Century England: The Foundations of Stability (New York, 1975)
Beckett, J. V. The Aristocracy in England, 1660–1914 (Oxford, 1986)
The Book of the Ranks and Dignities of British Society, attributed to Charles Lamb (London, 1924; originally published 1805)
Cannon, John, Aristocratic Century: The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1984)
Greene, D. J., “Jane Austen and the Peerage,” PMLA 68 (1953): 1017–1031.
Langford, Paul, Public Life and the Propertied Englishman, 1689–1798 (Oxford, 1991)
Mingay, G. E., English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1963)
———, The Gentry: The Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class (New York, 1976)
Stone, Lawrence, and Jeanne C. Fawtier Stone, An Open Elite? England 1540–1880 (Oxford, 1984)
Thompson, F. M. L., English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1963)
The Rural World
Bayne-Powell, Rosamond, English Country Life in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1935)
Bettey, J. H., Estates and the English Countryside (London, 1993)
Bovill, E. W., English Country Life, 1780–1830 (London, 1962)
Eastwood, David, Governing Rural England: Tradition and Transformation in Local Government, 1780– 1840 (Oxford, 1994)
———, Government and Community in the English Provinces, 1700–1870 (New York, 1997)
Keith-Lucas, Brian, The Unreformed Local Government System (London, 1980)
Mingay, G. E., A Social History of the English Countryside (London, 1990)
Thirsk, Joan, ed., The English Rural Landscape (Oxford, 2000)
Wade Martins, Susanna, Farmers, Landlords and Landscapes: Rural Britain, 1720 to 1870 (Macclesfield, Cheshire, 2004)
Wild, Trevor, Village England: A Social History of the Countryside (London, 2004)
Williamson, Tom, The Transformation of Rural England: Farmers and the Landscape, 1700–1870 (Exeter, Devon, 2002)
Williamson, Tom, and Liz Bellamy, Property and Landscape (London, 1987)
Crime and Unrest
Archer, John E., Social Unrest and Popular Protest in England, 1780–1840 (Cambridge, 2000)
Emsley, Clive, Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900 (London, 1987)
Fullerton, Susannah, Jane Austen and Crime (Madison, WI, 2006)
Gilmour, Ian, Riots, Risings, and Revolution: Governance and Violence in Eighteenth-Century England (London, 1993)
Hibbert, Christopher, Highwaymen (New York, 1967)
Urban Life
Berg, Maxine, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (New York, 2005)
Borsay, Peter, ed., The Eighteenth-Century Town: A Reader in English Urban History, 1688–1820 (London, 1990)
Corfield, P. J., The Impact of English Towns, 1700–1800 (Oxford, 1982)
Cox, Nancy, The Complete Tradesman: A Study of Retailing, 1550–1820 (Aldershot, Hampshire, 2000)
Cruickshank, Daniel, and Neil Burton, Life in the Georgian City (London, 1990)
Ellis, Joyce M., The Georgian Town, 1680–1840 (Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2001)
Girouard, Mark, The English Town: A History of Urban Life (New Haven, 1990)
Mui, Hoh-Cheung, and Lorna H. Mui, Shops and Shopkeeping in Eighteenth-Century England (Kingston, Ontario, 1989)
Raven, James, Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750–1800 (Oxford, 1992)
London
Borer, Mary Cathcart, An Illustrated Guide to London, 1800 (New York, 1988)
Lillywhite, Bryant, London Coffee Houses (London, 1963)
Margetson, Stella, Regency London (London, 1971)
Mingay, G. E., Georgian London (London, 1975)
Porter, Roy, London: A Social History (Cambridge, MA, 1994)
Rudé, George, Hanoverian London, 1714–1808 (Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2003)
Sheppard, Francis, London: A History (New York, 1998)
Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, eds., The London Encyclopedia (Bethesda, MD, 1986)
The Professions
Corfield, Penelope J., Power and the Professions in Britain, 1700–1850 (New York, 1995)
Reader, W. J., Professional Men: The Rise of the Professional Classes in Nineteenth-Century England (London, 1966)
The Church and the Clergy
Collins, Irene, Jane Austen and the Clergy (London, 1994)
Francis Brown, C. K., A History of the English Clergy, 1800–1900 (London, 1953)
Hart, A. Tindal, The Country Priest in English History (London, 1959)
Jacob, W. M., The Clerical Profession in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680–1840 (Oxford, 2007)
Legg, J. Wickham, English Church Life from the Restoration to the Tractarian Movement (London, 1914)
Sykes, Norman, Church and State in England in the XVIIIth Century (Hamden, CT, 1962)
Virgin, Peter, The Church in an Age of Negligence (Cambridge, 1989)
Whitaker, Wilfred Barnett, The Eighteenth-Century English Sunday (London, 1940)
White, Laura Mooneyham, Jane Austen’s Anglicanism (Farnham, Surrey, 2011)
The Army
Haythornthwaite, Philip J., The Armies of Wellington (New York, 1994)
Holmes, Richard, Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket (London, 2001)
Medicine
Buchan, William, Domestic Medicine (New York, 1815; based on 1798 London ed.)
Copeman, W. S. C., A Short History of the Gout and Rheumatic Diseases (Berkeley, 1964)
French, Roger, and Andrew Wear, eds., British Medicine in an Age of Reform (London, 1991)
Heberden, William, Commentaries on the History and Cure of Diseases (London, 1802)
Lane, Joan, A Social History of Medicine: Health, Healing and Disease in England, 1750–1950 (London, 2001)
Loudon, Irvine, Medical Care and the General Practitioner, 1750–1850 (Oxford, 1986)
Porter, Roy, ed., The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine (New York, 1996)
Porter, Roy, and Dorothy Porter, In Sickness and in Health: The British Experience, 1650–1850 (New York, 1989)
———, Patient’s Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England (Stanford, 1989)
Porter, Roy, and G. S. Rousseau, Gout: The Patrician Malady (New Haven, 1998)
Scudamore, Charles, A Treatise on the Nature and Cure of Gout and Rheumatism (London, 1817)
Law and Lawyers
Brooks, Christopher, Lawyers, Litigation, and English Society since 1450 (London, 1998)
