by Jane Austen
Kroeber, Karl, Styles in Fictional Structure: The Art of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot (Princeton, 1971)
Lascelles, Mary, Jane Austen and Her Art (Oxford, 1939)
Lauber, John, Jane Austen (New York, 1993)
Liddell, Robert, The Novels of Jane Austen (London, 1963)
Litz, J. Walton, Jane Austen (New York, 1965)
MacDonagh, Oliver, Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds (New Haven, 1991)
Mansell, Darrel, The Novels of Jane Austen: An Interpretation (London, 1973)
McMaster, Juliet, Jane Austen the Novelist (Basingstoke, 1996)
Moler, Kenneth L., Jane Austen’s Art of Illusion (Lincoln, NE, 1968)
Mooneyham, Laura, Romance, Language and Education in Jane Austen’s Novels (New York, 1988)
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)
Paris, J. Bernard, Character and Conflict in Jane Austen’s Novels (Detroit, 1978)
Roberts, Warren, Jane Austen and the French Revolution (New York, 1979)
Scott, P. J. M., Jane Austen (London, 1982)
Southam, B. C., ed., Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage, 2 vols. (London, 1968–1987)
———, Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion: A Casebook (London, 1976)
Spacks, Patricia Meyer, ed., Persuasion: A Norton Critical Edition (New York, 1995)
Stovel, Bruce and Lynn Weinlos Gregg, The Talk in Jane Austen (Alberta, 2002)
Ten Harmsel, Henrietta, Jane Austen: A Study in Fictional Conventions (The Hague, 1964)
Thomson, Clara Linklater, Jane Austen: A Survey (London, 1929)
Weisenfarth, Joseph, The Errand of Form: An Assay of Jane Austen’s Art (New York, 1967)
Winborn, Colin, The Literary Economy of George Crabbe and Jane Austen (Aldershot, 2004)
WORKS OF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
General Histories and Reference
Craik, W. A., Jane Austen in Her Time (London, 1969)
Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 3rd ed. (Edinburgh, 1797), and 4th ed. (Edinburgh, 1810)
Halevy, Elie, 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)
McKendrick, Neil, John Brewer, and J. H. Plumb, The Birth of a Consumer Society: the Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England (Bloomington, IN, 1982)
Olsen, Kirstin, All Things Austen: An Encyclopedia of Austen’s World, 2 vols. (Westport, CT, 2005)
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, vols. I and II (Oxford, 1933)
Language of the Period
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford, 1971)
Johnson, Samuel, Dictionary of the English Language, ed. by Alexander Chalmers (London, 1994; reprint of 1843 ed.)
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
Ali, Muhsin Jassim, Scheherazade in England (Washington, DC, 1981)
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)
Caracciolo, Peter L., ed., The Arabian Nights in English Literature (New York, 1988)
Clark, Kenneth, The Gothic Revival (London, 1962)
Fara, Patricia, An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment (New York, 2002)
Murdoch, John, et al., The English Miniature (New Haven, 1981)
Reynolds, Graham, English Portrait Miniatures (Cambridge, 1988)
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)
Stone, Lawrence, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500–1800 (London, 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)
Wolfram, Sybil, In-Laws and Outlaws: Kinship and Marriage in England (Beckenham, Kent, 1987)
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, 1991)
Hill, Bridget, Women Alone: Spinsters in England, 1660–1850 (New Haven, 2001)
Horn, Pamela, Victorian Countrywomen (Oxford, 1991)
Perkin, Joan, Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England (London, 1989)
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, UK, 2002)
Vickery, Amanda, The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England (London, 1998)
Children and Childbearing
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)
Lewis, Judith Schneid, In the Family Way: Childbearing in the British Aristocracy, 1760–1860 (New Brunswick, NJ, 1986)
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, 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)
Gerard, Jessica, Country House Life: Family and Servants, 1815–1914 (Oxford, 1994)
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, 2004)
———, The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant (Stroud, 2004)
Laing, Alastair, Lighting (London, 1982)
Sambrook, Pamela, The Country House Servant (Stroud, 1999)
Stuart, Dorothy Margaret, The English Abigail (London, 1946)
Turner, E. S., What the Butler Saw: 250 Years of the Servant Problem (New York, 1962)
Entails and Settlements
English, Barbara, and John Saville, Strict Settle
ment: 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)
Holcombe, Lee, Wives and Property: Reform of the Married Women’s Property Law in Nineteenth-Century England (Oxford, 1983)
Spring, Eileen, Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800 (Chapel Hill, 1993)
Money and Finance
Bird, James Barry, The Laws Respecting Landlords, Tenants, and Lodgers (London, 1801)
Dowell, Stephen, A History of Taxes and Taxation in England (London, 1884)
Friedberg, Robert, Coins of the British World: Complete from 500 A.C. to the Present (New York, 1962)
Landed Society
Baronetage of England (London, 1806)
Beckett, J. V., The Aristocracy in England, 1660–1914 (Oxford, 1986)
Bence-Jones, Mark, and Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, The British Aristocracy (London, 1979)
Book of the Ranks and Dignities of British Society, attributed to Charles Lamb (London, 1805; reprinted 1924)
Cannon, John, Aristocratic Century: The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1984)
Debrett’s Illustrated Baronetage (London, 1808)
Dugdale, William, The Antient Usage in Bearing of Such Ensigns of Honour as are commonly call’d Arms (Oxford, 1682)
Greene, D. J., “Jane Austen and the Peerage,” PMLA 68 (1953): 1017–1031.
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)
The New Baronetage of England (London, 1804)
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
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)
Horn, Pamela, The Rural World, 1780–1850: Social Change in the English Countryside (New York, 1980)
Keith-Lucas, Brian, The Unreformed Local Government System (London, 1980)
Rackham, Oliver, The History of the Countryside (London, 1986)
Wade Martins, Susanna, Farmers, Landlords, and Landscapes (Macclesfield, Cheshire, 2004)
Williamson, Tom, The Transformation of Rural England (Exeter, UK, 2002)
Williamson, Tom, and Liz Bellamy, Property and Landscape (London, 1987)
Urban Life
Adburgham, Alison, Shopping in Style: London from the Restoration to Edwardian Elegance (London, 1979)
Corfield, P. J., The Impact of English Towns, 1700–1800 (Oxford, 1982)
Cox, Nancy, The Complete Tradesman: A Study of Retailing, 1550–1820 (Aldershot, 2000)
Cruickshank, Daniel, and Neil Burton, Life in the Georgian City (London, 1990)
Ellis, Joyce M., The Georgian Town, 1680–1840 (Basingstoke, 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)
Orchard, Vincent, Tattersalls (New York, 1954)
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 Curate’s Lot (Newton Abbot, 1971)
Jacob, W. M., The Clerical Profession in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680–1840 (Oxford, 2007)
Virgin, Peter, The Church in an Age of Negligence (Cambridge, 1989)
Whitaker, Wilfred Barnett, The Eighteenth-Century English Sunday (London, 1940)
The Navy and Army
Blake, Nicholas, Steering to Glory: A Day in the Life of a Ship of the Line (London, 2005)
Great Britain, Admiralty, Navy List (London, 1815)
Holmes, Richard, Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket (London, 2001)
Hubback, John H., Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers (London, 1906)
King, Dean, A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O’Brian’s Seafaring Tales (New York, 1995)
Lavery, Brian, Nelson’s Navy: The Ships, Men and Organisation, 1793–1815 (London, 1989)
Lewis, Michael, England’s Sea-Officers: The Story of the Naval Profession (London, 1939)
———, A Social History of the Navy, 1793–1815 (London, 1960)
Lincoln, Margarette, Naval Wives & Mistresses (London, 2007)
Representing the Royal Navy: British Sea Power, 1750–1815 (Aldershot, 2002)
MacDonald, Janet, Feeding Nelson’s Navy (London, 2004)
Marcus, G. J., Heart of Oak: A Survey of British Sea Power in the Georgian Era (London, 1975)
Rodger, N. A. M., The Command of the Ocean (New York, 2006)
The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy (New York, 1986)
Southam, Brian, Jane Austen and the Navy (London, 2005)
Steel, David, Steel’s Original and Correct List of the Royal Navy (London, 1813)
Medicine
Buchan, William, Domestic Medicine (New York, 1815; based on London ed.)
Cooper, Samuel, First Lines of the Practice of Surgery (Hanover, NH, 1815; based on London ed.)
Copeman, W. S. C., A Short History of the Gout and Rheumatic Diseases (Berkeley, 1964)
Digby, Anne, Making a Medical Living: Doctors and Patients in the English Market for Medicine, 1720–1911 (Cambridge, UK, 1994)
Dingwall, Robert, Anne Marie Rafferty, and Charles Webster, eds., An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing (London, 1988)
English, Peter, Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain (New Brunswick, NJ, 1999)
French, Roger, and Andrew Wear, eds., British Medicine in an Age of Reform (London, 1991)
Kamenetz, Herman, The Wheelchair Book (Springfield, IL, 1969)
King, Lester, The Medical World of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1958)
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, 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
Abel-Smith, Brian, and Robert Stevens, Lawyers and the Courts: A Sociological Study of the English Legal System, 1750–1965 (London, 1967)
Baker, J. H., An Introduction to English Legal History, 2nd ed. (London, 1979)
Birks, Michael, Gentlemen of the Law (London, 1960)
Brooks, Christopher, Lawyers, Litigation, and English Society since 1450 (London, 1998)
Duman, Daniel, The Judicial Bench in England, 1727–1875: The Reshaping of a Professional Elite (London, 1982)
———, The Laws Respecting Women (London, 1777; reprinted 1974)
Lemmings, David, Professors of the Law: Barristers and English Legal Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 2000)
Robson, Robert,
The Attorney in Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1959)
Education
Chandos, John, Boys Together: English Public Schools, 1800–1864 (New Haven, 1984)
Gardiner, Dorothy, English Girlhood at School: A Study of Women’s Education Through Twelve Centuries (London, 1929)
Books and Newspapers
Black, Jeremy, The English Press, 1621–1861 (Stroud, 2001)
Bronson, Bertrand H., Printing as an Index of Taste in Eighteenth-Century England (New York, 1958)
Clarke, Bob, From Grub Street to Fleet Street: An Illustrated History of English Newspapers to 1899 (Aldershot, 2004)
St. Clair, William, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge, UK, 2004)
Libraries
Hamlyn, H. M., “Eighteenth-Century Circulating Libraries in England,” Library, Fifth Series I (1947), pp. 197–218.
Manley, K. A., “Booksellers, Peruke-Makers, and Rabbit-Merchants: the Growth of Circulating Libraries in the Eighteenth Century,” in Myers, Robin, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote, eds., Libraries and the Book Trade (New Castle, 2001)
Writing
Finlay, Michael, Western Writing Implements in the Age of the Quill Pen (Carlisle, Cumbria, 1990)
Whalley, Joyce Irene, Writing Implements and Accessories: From the Roman Stylus to the Typewriter (Newton Abbot, Devon, 1975)
The Postal Service
Hemmeon, J. C., The History of the British Post Office (Cambridge, MA, 1912)
Joyce, Herbert, The History of the Post Office (London, 1893)
Kay, F. George, Royal Mail: The Story of the Posts in England from the Time of Edward IVth to the Present Day (London, 1951)
Transportation
Copeland, John, Roads and Their Traffic (Newton Abbot, Devon, 1968)
Dyos, H. J., and D. H. Aldcroft, British Transport: An Economic Survey from the Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth (Leicester, 1969)
Felton, William, A Treatise on Carriages (London, 1796)
Jackman, W. T., The Development of Transportation in Modern England (London, 1962)
Luton Museum and Art Gallery, The Turnpike Age (Luton, 1970—reprint of contemporary work by G. Gray)
