First Austen Reports:

Popular Literature of Jane Austen's Youth:

The picaresque novel in English and other literary influences

English Satire, 1750-1800, Gillray, Rowlandson, Combe. Jeannie N.

Susanna Centlivre's The Wonder: a Woman Keeps a Secret (1714)

John Gay, The Beggar's Opera (1728)

James Thomson's The Seasons (1730)

Henry Fielding's The Tragedy of Tragedies, or the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (1731)

Samuel Johnson's Rambler essays (1750-1752)

James Townley's High Life Below Stairs (1759)

Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)

George Robinson and The Lady's Magazine (1770-1772) Alison B.

Isaac Bickerstaff's The Sultan, or A Peep into the Seraglio (1775) Sierra M.

Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets (1779) Kristina B.

Hannah Cowley's The Belle's Stratagem (1780) and Which is the Man? (1783)

Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) and English Nature Writing

James Austen's The Loiterer (1789-1790) Sam C.

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).  And see Northanger Abbey (NCE) pp. 222-25 Trisha P.

Jane West's A Gossip's Story (1796)

Charlotte Smith, William Lisle Bowles, and the Sonnet Revival

Bishop Thomas Percy, F. J. Child, and the Ballad Revival

Maria Edgeworth Hallie B.

Fanny Burney, esp. Evelina (1778)

Contemporary Reviews of Northanger Abbey (NCE) pp. 243-63.

 

Jane Austen's Juvenilia:

The Three Sisters: a Novel (1792) (OWC) pp. 55-67.

Catherine, or the Bower (1792) in Northanger Abbey (NCE) pp. 206-12, (OWC) pp. 186-229.

Frederic and Elfrida: a Novel () (OWC) pp. 3-10.

Jack and Alice: a Novel () (OWC) pp. 11-26.

Henry and Eliza: a Novel () (OWC) pp. 31-6.

Lesley Castle: an Unfinished Novel in Letters (1792) (OWC) pp. 107-33.

History of England and other Scraps (1791) And see Northanger Abbey (NCE) pp. 197-206; (OWC) pp. 134-44.

 

Social Conditions:  see the general articles as well

Meals and Food Meghan M.

Roads and Transportation

Letters, Letter-writing, the Post, and Newspapers Bevin L.

Abbey House School and Institutions of Primary Education Keri N.

The Situation of Children in Middle Class England

Medicine, Illness, and Disease

The English Country House

Money, Finance, and Banking in the 18th C.  Emily P.

Circulating Libraries and the "Reading Public" Triston K.

A Young Lady's "Coming Out" in 1788 Sabrina B.

Jane Austen's Journeys and Residences Alex D.

The Gothic Revival in Art and Architecture

The Grand Tour

Bath Society Emily L.

Agriculture in Austen's England

Polite Dress and Costume Jill O.

The English Country Church and Clergy Bryne W.

The Culture of Dissent: Unitarians, Deists, and other Nonconformists

English Universities and the Education of Women Libby M.

Army and Navy Life Brandon C.

Ranks and Titles in Aristocracy, Church, and Military Sixtine S.

London Cultural Life during the Season Ashlee S.

Printers, Booksellers, and Literary Journals

Eighteenth Century English Landscape and Gardening Hollie S.

 

Politics:

Edmund Burke and English Conservativism

Stirrings of Reform in Westminster

Ministers and Parties in Parliament

Monarchy and its Cultural Significance

Abolition and the Slave Trade Stephanie R.

The British in the West Indies, 1750-1815

England during the Napoleonic Wars Jordan M.