to pursue it, are advised to read the "introductions" contributed to
recent editions of Jane Austen's novels by various critics,
particularly Mr. Austin Dobson, Professor Saintsbury, and Mr. E. V.
Lucas, as well as the _Life_ contributed by Mr. Goldwin Smith to the
_Great Writers_ series.
[The dates given on the left hand are those of publication.]
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INDEX
Adams, Oscar, on Jane Austen, 89
Addison, Joseph, 55
"Allen, Mr.," 187
"----, Mrs.," 100
_Alphonsine_, 61
Anderson, Mrs. Garrett, 170
_Antiquary, The_, 51
Apothecaries, 114
Arc, Joan of, 169
Aspasia, 158
Austen, Cassandra, 31, 63, 79, 100, 212
----, Edward (_see_ Knight), 41, 214, 223, 238
----, The Rev. George, 152, 223, 241
----, Henry, 22, 243, 251
----, Jane, freshness of her work, 14; her aim, 18, 68; at home, 22;
her nature, 24-30; views on love, 32; her admirers, 35-37, 163; her
limited appeal, 43; on novels, 50-54; favourite authors, 56-60;
criticism of niece's work, 63-64; limitations of subject, 16-19, 65,
112, 192, 204; literary style, 66-70, 82-85; choice of names, 74; in
London, 76, 242; views of life, 41, 87, 217; as humourist, 89, 171-172;
a "forbidding" writer, 89; Mr. Goldwin Smith on her novels, 91;
contrasted with Peacock, 92-94; her letters, 23, 31, 99, 121, 211-223;
declines to meet Madame de Staël, 109; her charities, 116-117; at balls
and dances, 123-128; Dr. Whately on her work, 135, 161, 181, 189; views
of marriage, 106, 138-140; influenced by current philosophy, 143-149;
her fine taste, 152; her opinion of _Lady Susan_, 152; her heroines,
21, 32-33, 138-163; their relations, 183; her avoidance of dogmatism,
149, 193; love for her own creations, 202; economy of description, 205,
227, 231; on dress, 210-219; food, 219-224; places--Bath, 152, 214,
240; Chawton, 22, 153, 237; Godmersham, 41, 223, 238; London, 76, 242;
Lyme Regis, 160, 234-236; Southampton, 241; Steventon, 22, 153, 214,
234; her literary influence, 247-250
Austen, Mrs., 25, 29, 222, 223
Balzac, 17, 108, 201, 209, 233
"Barton," 102
"Bates, Miss," 175, 219, 221
Bath, 152, 153, 214, 240
Batilliat, Marcel, 57
Bazin, René, 57
Beaconsfield, Lord, 108
"Bellaston, Lady," 157
"Bellona" (_Richard Feverel_), 157
"Bennet, Elizabeth," 79, 93, 203, 216
"----, Jane," 42, 203
"----, Lydia," 43, 141, 229
"----, Mr.," 72, 90, 229
"----, Mrs.," 72, 90, 100
"Bertram, Edmund," 40, 70, 155
"----, Lady," 131
"----, Maria," 18, 83
"----, Sir Thomas," 64, 130
"Bingleys, The," 115, 129
Bond, John, 116
Boswell, James, 58
Boulangeries (dance), 129
"Bourgh, Lady Catherine de," 118, 175
Box Hill, picnic at, 175
Brabourne, Lord, 252
"Brandon, Colonel," 141-144
Brock, C. E., 209
Brontë, Charlotte, 19, 85, 195
Barney, Frances, 49, 53, 60, 86, 88
----, Sarah, 61
Byron, Lord, 121
Cage, Mrs., 100
Calprenède, 55
_Cambridge Observer_, 83
"Camper, Lady," 205
_Candide_, 147
Carlton House, 65, 165
"Chainmail, Mr.," 93
Charlet, 243
Châtelet, Madame du, 102, 158
Chawton, 22, 153, 237
Chesterfield, Lord, 78
Church of England, 189-191
"Churchill, Frank," 37, 104, 127, 231
Chute, William, 37
Cibber, Colley, 77
_Clandestine Marriage_, 77
_Clarentine_, 61
_Clarissa_, 50
"Clay, Mrs.," 18
Coleridge, 19, 194
"Coles, The," 129
"Collins, Mr.," 71, 93, 164, 192, 229
Colonies, American, 13
_Connoisseur, The_, 56
Consumption, 218
Cork Street, 77
"Cormon, Rose," 18
_Corsair, The_, 215
"Courcy, Reginald de," 150
Cowper, William, 29, 57, 223
Crabbe, George, 56
"Crawford, Henry," 18, 83
"----, Mary," 40, 160
Critic, an American, 45
Croker, John Wilson, 198
_Crotchet Castle_, 93
Curie, Madame, 170
Cuvier, 193
"Dalrymples, The," 119
"Darcy, Fitzwilliam," 33, 42, 93, 118, 203
"----, Georgiana," 67
Darwin, Erasmus, 193
"Dashwood, Elinor," 18, 43, 141-148
"----, Marianne," 79, 141
"----, Mrs.," 188
Deism, 193
Dickens, 219, 233
Digweed, James, 114, 123
Disraeli, Isaac, 108
Dobson, Austin, 253
Dodsley, Robert, 59-60
"Dotheboys Hall," 92
Dowton, William, 77
Dress, 210-219
"Dudley, Arabelle," 157
Duff, Sir M. E. Grant, 148
Dumas _père_, 219, 243
Edgeworth, Maria, 53, 60, 76, 148, 189
Eliot, George, 85, 169
"Elliot, Anne," 33, 93, 125, 163, 250
"----, Sir Walter," 118, 176
"----, William, 160, 178
"Elliott, Kirstie," 208
"Elton, Mr.," 104
"----, Mrs.," 173, 205
_Emma_, 80, 131, 237, 251
_Eugénie Grandet_, 108
"Evelina," 99, 139
"Eyre, Jane," 16, 195
"Fagin," 92
"Fairfax, Jane," 38, 129
"Ferrars, Edward," 155
"----, Lucy," 82
"Feverel, Lucy," 35
"----, Richard," 35
"Ffolliot, Dr.," 93
Fielding, Henry, 14, 154
"Fischer, Lisbeth," 16
Food, 219-224
France, Anatole, 149
Frénilly, Baron de, on dress, 218
Galt, John, 76
"Gardiners, The," 140, 242
Garrick, 59-60
Genlis, Madame de, 61
George III, on genius, 49
Gifford, William, 165
Gipsies, 231
"Gobseck, Esther van," 157
Godmersham, 41, 223, 238
"Grandet, Père," 16
"Grandison, Sir Charles," 205
_Great English Novelists_, 247
_Gulliver's Travels_, 94
_Guy Mannering_, 51
Hall, Robert, on Miss Edgeworth, 189
"Hamlet," 181
Hardy, Thomas, 233
Hazlitt, William, 165
_Headlong Hall_, 94
Henrietta Street, 242
"Homespun, Mr.," 225
Hope, Anthony, 44
_House on the Beach, The_, 115
"Hurst, Mrs.," 216
Huxley, Thomas, 170
_Hypocrite, The_, 77
_Ida of Athens_, 62
_Idler, The_, 56
"Jennings, Mrs.," 102, 138, 142
"Jingle, Alfred," 75
Johnson, Samuel, 56, 58
"Jones, Tom," 155, 213
Jonson, Ben, 86
Kean, Edmund, 77
"Kew, Lady," 16
Knatchbull, Lady, _see_ Knight, Fanny
Knight, Edward (Austen), 41, 214, 223, 238
----, Fanny, 40, 104, 252
"Knightley, George," 70, 155, 181
_Lady Susan_, 87, 137, 149-152, 252
Lamb, Charles, 13
Landor, Walter Savage, 13, 198
Lang, Andrew, 147
Langton, Bennet, 58
_La Terre qui meurt_, 57
_La Vendée aux Genêts_, 57
Lefroy, Thomas, 35-36, 213
Leigh, J. E. Austen, 23, 251, 252
_Letters of Jane Austen_, 252
Lewes, G. H., 85
Liston, John, 77
Lloyd, Martha, 67
Lockhart, William, his "Life of Scott," 166
Lombroso, 147
London, 76, 242
_Lounger, The_, 56
Love, Jane Austen's views on, 32
"Lucas, Charlotte," 139
----, E. V., 253
"----, Sir William," 114-115
Lyford, John, 123
Lyme Regis, 160, 234-236
_Lys dans la Vallée, Le_, 157
Macaulay, 49, 68, 181
Mackintosh, Sir James, 122
"Manerville, Natalie de," 19
_Mansfield Park_, 44, 137, 165, 186, 237, 251
_Margiana_, 61
Marriage, 106, 138
Martin, Mrs., her library, 60
"----, Robert," 113
"Mascarille," 78
Mathews, Charles, 77
"McQueedy, Mr.," 93
_Melincourt_, 94
Meredith, George, 69, 115, 233
"Middleton, Lady," 187
"----, Sir John," 79, 102, 119, 205
"Milestone, Mr.," 93
"Millamant," 159
Milton, 21, 194
"Mirabell," 159
_Mirror, The_, 225
Mitford, Mrs., 104
"Morland, Catherine," 18, 34, 80, 81, 88, 91, 99, 216, 224, 227
"----, Mr. and Mrs.," 186
Murray, John, "The First," 165
"Musgrove, Louisa," 187, 236
Names, 74
"Nanny," 113
Napoleon on Madame de Staël, 45
"Nature's Salic Law," 170
"Newcome, Colonel," 75
Nightingale, Florence, 169
_Nightmare Abbey_, 94, 121
"Norris, Mrs.," 187
_Northanger Abbey_, 44, 53, 87, 151, 210, 240, 251
"Nostalgie de l'Infini," 148
Novel, "Plan of," 95
----, suggestion for, 65
Novelists, defence of, 53
Novels, 50, 60-62
----, French, 55, 57
O'Neill, Miss, 77
"Orange, Robert," 160
_Ordeal of Richard Feverel, The_, 157
Osborne, Dorothy, 31, 33, 55, 163
"----, Lord," 113
----, Mr., on passions, 163
Owenson, Miss, 62
_Pamela_, 50
"Patterne, Sir Willoughby," 205
Peacock, Thomas Love, 92-94
"Pecksniff," 16
"Pemberley," 42
_Persuasion_, 125, 137, 151, 186, 237, 240, 251
Phelps, W. L., 34
_Pickwick Papers_, 240
Picnics, 175, 224
"Pierrette," 18
Plutocrats, 41
_Plymley Letters_, 78
"Pons, Sylvain," 75
Portsmouth, 66, 184, 233
Poverty, 40
Powlett, Charles, 36, 101
_Précieuses ridicules_, 78
"Price, Fanny," 18, 34, 184
_Pride and Prejudice_, 44, 62, 85, 129, 136, 186, 237, 251
Property, landed, 41-42
"Proudie, Mrs.," 205
_Quarterly Review_, 135, 162, 165
Queensberry, Duke of, 191
_Quentin Durward_, 139
"Quilp," 16
Radcliffe, Mrs., 50, 52, 60, 86
_Rambler, The_, 56
"Ravenswood Tower," 92
Realism, 205
Regent, The, 153, 165
Religion, 189
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 59
"----, Mrs.," 112
Richardson, Samuel, 50, 59, 60
"Rigby, Mr.," 198
_Rivals, The_, 153
"Rochefide, Beatrix de," 19
"Rushworth, Maria," 18
"Rushworth, Mr.," 83
"Russell, Lady," 163, 183, 205
Saintsbury, George, 90, 141, 253
Sand, George, 108, 169
Sappho, 249
Saxe-Coburg family, 65
Scharlieb, Mrs., 170
_School for Saints, The_, 160
Scott, Sir Walter, 16, 42, 51, 67, 76, 209
----, Life of, 166
Scudéri, Mademoiselle de, 55
"Scythrop," 93
"Sedley, Jos," 92
_Self-control_, 61
Selwyn, George, 191
_Sense and Sensibility_, 44, 62, 82, 136, 143, 202, 242
Shakespeare, 84-85, 181
Shelley, 121
Sheridan, 130, 153
"Shirley," 92
_Sir Charles Grandison_, 50
Smith, Goldwin, 91, 253
"----, Harriet," 103, 231
----, James, 13
----, Sydney, 78
Socialists, 41
Sondes, Lady, 106
Southampton, 241
_Spectator, The_, 53-55
Staël, Madame de, 45, 109-111
Steele, Richard, 55
Stephen, Leslie, 235
Stephens, Miss, 77
Steventon, 22, 153, 214, 234
"Steyne, Lord," 16
Surville, Madame de, 201
Swift, Jonathan, 149, 220
_Tamaris_, 108
_Tartuffe_, 77
_Tatler, The_, 56
Temple, Sir William, 33, 55
Tennyson, 26, 236
Thackeray, 16, 28, 94
Theatricals at the Bertrams', 131
Thomson, Hugh, 209, 232
"Thorpe, John," 51
"Tilney, General," 187, 224
"----, Henry," 18, 70, 80, 88, 91, 93, 216, 224, 225
"Tinman, Martin," 115
_Tom Jones_, 157
"Tulliver, Mr.," 205
Turner, J. M. W., 13
"Uppercross," dancing at, 125
Vallière, Louise de la, 158
"Vandenesse, Felix de," 201
"Vautrin," 92
Vendée, La, 57
_Venetia_, 121
Ventilation, Mr. Woodhouse on, 127
"Vernon, Lady Susan," 106
Verrall, A. W., on text of Jane Austen's novels, 83
_Village, The_, 56
Villiers, Barbara, 158
Voltaire, 147, 158
Waltz, 129-131
Warner, Dr., 191
_Watsons, The_, 87, 137, 152, 252
_Waverley_, 51, 52
_Weir of Hermiston_, 208
"Wentworth, Frederick," 125, 155, 188, 251
"Western, Sophia," 142, 155
"----, Squire," 154
"Weston, Mr.," 115
"----, Mrs.," 84, 103, 181
Whately, Archbishop, 135, 161, 181, 189
"Wickham," 141
"Williams, Miss," 143
"Willoughby, John," 18, 79, 141-146
Wine, 221
"Woodhouse, Emma," 33, 37, 64, 93, 103, 181, 221
"----, Mr.," 172, 174, 221
_World, The_, 56
Wyndham, Mr., 104
Zola, 66
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