1880 Jane Austen and her Works. By Sarah Tytler.
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. pp. viii-386.
8vo.
[This contains a Life drawn from the Memoir,
and a résumé of each of the novels.]
1882 Jane Austen's Novels. Steventon Edition. Five
volumes. London: Richard Bentley & Son. 8vo.
1883 A Book of Sibyls. By Anne Isabella Thackeray.
London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. vi-229. 8vo.
['Jane Austen,' pp. 197-229.]
1884 Letters of Jane Austen. Edited, with an introduction
and critical remarks, by Edward, Lord
Brabourne. Two volumes. London: Richard
Bentley & Son.
[This includes: (1) a series of letters from Jane
to Cassandra; (2) letters from Jane to Fanny
Knight; (3) letters from Jane to Anna Austen
(Mrs. B. Lefroy); and (4) two letters from
Cassandra to Fanny Knight, just after Jane's
death.]
1885 Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith,
Elder & Co. 'Jane Austen,' by L[eslie]. S[tephen].
[This account, based on the Memoir and the
Letters (which latter are said to be trivial and
to give no new facts), is accurate: except in
stating that Jane was the youngest of seven
children, and that she went to Castle Square,
Southampton, in 1805.]
1886
Letters to Dead Authors. By Andrew Lang. London:
Longmans, Green & Co. 8vo.
['To Jane Austen,' pp. 75-85.]
1888 Chapters from Jane Austen. Edited by Oscar Fay
Adams. Boston: Lee & Shepard.
1889 Jane Austen. By S. F. Malden [Mrs. Charles Malden].
'Eminent Women' series. London: W. H.
Allen. pp. 210. 8vo.
[Much space is devoted to an abstract of the
novels.]
1890 Life of Jane Austen. By Goldwin Smith. 'Great
Writers' series. London: Walter Scott.
pp. 195-v. 8vo.
[Contains a bibliography compiled by J. P.
Anderson.]
1891 The Story of Jane Austen's Life. By Oscar Fay
Adams. Chicago: A. D. McClurg & Co.
pp. v-277. 8vo.
[Includes a bibliography.]
1892 The Novels of Jane Austen. Edited by R. Brimley
Johnson; with illustrations by William Cubit
Cooke, and ornaments by F. C. Tilney. Ten
volumes. London: J. M. Dent & Co.
[The first volume of Sense and Sensibility contains
an account of Jane Austen, pp. xi-xxxi. This
was the first really independent issue of the
novels—Bentley's edition having previously held
the field. Mr. Johnson, as a rule, followed the
text of the latest edition which appeared in the
author's lifetime. Unfortunately, his printers
introduced a good many new misprints of their
own.]
1894 Pride and Prejudice. With a preface by George
Saintsbury, and illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
London: George Allen. pp. xxvii-476. 8vo.
1895 Charades, etc. Written a Hundred Tears Ago. By
Jane Austen and her family. London:
Spottiswoode & Co. pp. 34. 8vo.
1895 Duologues and Scenes from the Novels of Jane Austen,
arranged and adapted for Drawing-room Performance.
By Rosina Filippi (Mrs. Dowson); with
illustrations by Miss Fletcher. London: J. M.
Dent & Co. pp. xv-139. 8vo.
1895-7
Jane Austen's Novels. With illustrations by Hugh
Thomson [but
Pride and Prejudice is illustrated
by C. E. Brock] and introductions by Austin
Dobson. Five volumes. London: Macmillan
& Co. 8vo.
[These volumes were afterwards (1902-4)
reprinted and issued in Macmillan's 'Illustrated
Pocket Classics.']
1897 Essays on the Novel: as illustrated by Scott and Miss
Austen. By A. A. Jack. London: Macmillan & Co.
['Miss Austen,' pp. 232-297.]
1898 The Novels of Jane Austen. Winchester Edition.
Ten volumes. London: Grant Richards. 8vo.
[Subsequently, in 1906, this edition was
re-issued with a new title-page by John Grant
of Edinburgh.]
1898 Emma. With an introduction by Joseph Jacobs,
and illustrations by Chris Hammond. London:
George Allen. pp. xxvi-504. 8vo.
1898 The Novels of Jane Austen. Edited by R. Brimley
Johnson; with coloured illustrations by C. E.
and H. M. Brock. London: J. M. Dent & Co.
[This edition seems to be printed from the same
type as that used in the 1892 edition. Many of
the obvious misprints have been corrected; but
two following chapters in Mansfield Park are still
numbered xxxii, throwing out the numeration of
all subsequent chapters.]
1899 Jane Austen: Her Contemporaries and Herself. An
essay in criticism. By Walter Herries Pollock.
London: Longmans, Green & Co. pp. 125. 8vo.
[The contemporaries are Miss Burney, Miss
Edgeworth, and Miss Ferrier.]
1899 Sense and Sensibility. With an introduction by J.
Jacobs, and illustrations by Chris Hammond.
London: George Allen, pp. xxviii-389. 8vo.
1899 The Works of Jane Austen. With coloured frontispieces
by H. M. Brock. The Temple Edition.
Ten volumes. London: J. M. Dent & Co.
8vo.
1899 Catherine Morland. [sc. Northanger Abbey.] Roman
traduit de l'anglais. Par F. Fénélon. Published
in La Revue blanche. Paris. pp. 364. 8vo.
1900 Pride and Prejudice. With an introduction and notes
by E. V. Lucas. Methuen's 'Little Library.'
Two volumes. London: Methuen & Co.
[1900] Pride and Prejudice. Illustrated by Chris Hammond;
with an introduction by William Keith Leask.
London: The Gresham Publishing Co. 8vo. n.d.
1901
Northanger Abbey. With an introduction by E. V.
Lucas. Methuen's 'Little Library.' London:
Methuen & Co. pp. xiv-273. 8vo.
1902 The Novels of Jane Austen. Hampshire Edition. Five
volumes. London: R. Brimley Johnson. 8vo.
[There is a publisher's note at the beginning
of Pride and Prejudice, and each novel contains
two specially drawn end-papers illustrating its
topographical details. The text differs occasionally
from that of the novels edited by Mr.
Brimley Johnson.]
1902 Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends. By
Constance Hill. Illustrations by Ellen G. Hill,
and reproductions in photogravure, &c. London:
John Lane. pp. viii-279. 8vo.
[The book contains much topographical detail.]
1904 Pride and Prejudice. Illustrated by Chris Hammond.
London: Blackie & Son. pp. viii-392. 8vo.
1905 The Works of Jane Austen. 'Sense and Sensibility.'
Introduction by Sidney Lee. Methuen's
Standard Library. London: Methuen & Co.
pp. vii-247. 8vo.
[It is stated that the text is taken from that
of the second edition. The other novels in this
series do not seem to have been published up to
the present.]
1905 Jane Austen and her Times. By G. E. Mitton. With
twenty-one illustrations. London: Methuen
& Co. pp. viii-334. 8vo.
1906 Jane Austen's Novels. With introduction by R.
Brimley Johnson. Everyman's Library. Five
volumes. London: J. M. Dent & Co. 8vo.
1906 Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers: being the Adventures
of Sir Francis Austen, G.C.B., Admiral of the
Fleet, and Rear-Admiral Charles Austen. By
J. H. Hubback and Edith C. Hubback. London:
John Lane. pp. xiv-294. 8vo.
[Four hitherto unpublished letters of Jane to
her brothers are given.]
1907 The Works of Jane Austen—I. 'Emma.' With an
introduction by E. V. Lucas. The World's
Classics. Oxford: Henry Frowde. pp. xv-459.
8vo.
1907-9 [The Novels of Jane Austen.] With coloured illustrations
by C. E. Brock. 'The Series of English
Idylls.' Five volumes. London: J. M. Dent
& Co. 8vo.
1908-10
The Novels of Jane Austen. With general introduction
and notes by R. Brimley Johnson. Coloured
illustrations and end-pieces by A. Wallis Mills.
The Saint Martin's Illustrated Library of Standard
Authors. Ten volumes. London: Chatto
& Windus. 8vo.
1909 Jane Austen and Her Country-house Comedy. By
W. H. Helm. London: Eveleigh Nash. pp. x-259.
8vo.
[A critical appreciation. The frontispiece is
an imaginary portrait of Jane Austen.]
1910 Pride and Prejudice. Abridged and edited by
Mrs. Frederick Boas. English Literature for
Schools. Cambridge: at the University Press.
pp. xix-211. 8vo.
[The editor's object is to present the book in a
form suitable for school reading. Some notes
are given.]
1910 Encyclopædia Britannica. Eleventh Edition. Cambridge:
at the University Press.
['Jane Austen,' by E. V. L[ucas], vol. ii.
pp. 906-7.]
[This is an accurate account, except that it
contains the same two mistakes as those in the
Dictionary of National Biography.]
1911 Essays and Studies. By members of the English
Association. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press.
['Jane Austen,' by A. C. Bradley, vol. ii.
pp. 7-36.]
1911 Chawton Manor and its Owners. A family history.
By William Austen Leigh and Montagu George
Knight. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. viii-219.
4to.
[Chapter VII.—'The Austens.']
1912 Pride and Prejudice. Edited with introduction, &c.
by K. M. Metcalfe. Oxford University Press:
Henry Frowde. pp. xxxii-403. 8vo.
[A scholarly edition: the text is that of the
first edition, except in a few instances, where
a note is given. The title-pages of the three
volumes are reproduced in facsimile. Appendix
on social customs in J. A.'s day; criticisms,
notes, &c.]
1912
Jane Austen. By Lady Margaret Sackville. 'The
Regent Library.' London: Herbert & Daniel.
pp. xvi-471. 8vo.
[Long selections from the novels, with an introduction
and some appreciations.]
1913 Old Friends and New Fancies: an Imaginary Sequel
to the Novels of Jane Austen. By Sybil G.
Brinton. London: Holden & Hardingham.
pp. viii-384. 8vo.
1913 Jane Austen: a Criticism and Appreciation. By
Percy Fitzgerald, M.A., F.S.A. London: Jarrold
& Sons. pp. 129. 8vo.
[The frontispiece is a reproduction of a bust of
Jane Austen executed by Mr. Fitzgerald.]
I. Austens
II. Leighs
II. Craven, Fowle, and Lloyd Families
INDEX