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.
William P.
Susanna Centlivre's
The Wonder: a Woman Keeps a Secret (1714)
John Gay,
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Victoria B.
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)
Adam V.
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)
Isaac Bickerstaff's
The Sultan, or A Peep into the Seraglio (1775)
Samuel Johnson's
Lives of the English Poets (1779)
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)
Mary Wollstonecraft's
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).
And see Northanger Abbey (NCE) pp. 222-25
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
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. Emily P.
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. Megan
R.
Meals
and Food Christina L.
Roads and Transportation
David E.
Letters,
Letter-writing, the Post, and Newspapers
Seungmee B.
Abbey House School and Institutions of Primary Education
and
the Education of
Women Meredith V.
The Situation of Children in Middle Class England
Ty R.
Medicine, Illness, and Disease Chelsae K.
The English Country House
Money,
Finance, and
Banking in
the 18th C.
Monica L.
Circulating
Libraries and the
"Reading Public"
A Young Lady's
"Coming Out" in 1788 Dalton C.
Jane Austen's Journeys and Residences
Lingyu Z.
The Gothic Revival in Art and Architecture
Kacey B.
The Grand Tour
Bath Society
Kasiah Z.
Agriculture in
Austen's England
Polite Dress
and Costume
Emily O.
The English Country Church and Clergy
Gwen B.
The Culture of Dissent: Unitarians, Deists, and other Nonconformists
English Universities
and the Education of
Women Roslyn F.
Army and Navy Life
Abi B.
Ranks and Titles in Aristocracy, Church, and Military
Daniel S.
London Cultural Life during the Season
Brie S.
Printers, Booksellers, and Literary Journals
Eighteenth Century English Landscape
and Gardening
Patricia R.
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
Lillianna C.
The British in the West Indies, 1750-1815
Justin G.
England during the Napoleonic Wars