A Memoir of Jane Austen

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note; traces of early burlesque in 43;
negotiations to publish 105–6 and
note, 185; posthumous appearance
82; Persuasion 124; cancelled
chapter 125 and note; posthumous
appearance 82; ‘the most beautiful
of her works’ (Whewell) 112; ‘Anne
Elliott [sic] was herself’ 197; Pride
and Prejudice (‘First Impressions’):
first completed novel 43; early
attempt to publish 105 and note;
revised at Chawton 81; its price 83;
JA’s views on 83–4; her personal
affection for Darcy and Elizabeth
83–4, 118; Fanny Knight on 84;
Walter Scott on 107, 113, 118; Sense
and Sensibility (‘Elinor and Marianne’):
its early history 43–4, 185;
revised at Chawton 81; profits
on 106 and note, 140; Elinor and
Marianne believed to be portraits of
JA and Cassandra 19
other writings: ‘the betweenities’, and
family views on publishing 42–3 and
note, 186; ‘Catherine or The Bower’
186; ‘Evelyn’ 186; ‘The History of
England’ 44 n., 71 n.; Lady Susan
3, 43 n., 191; in Fanny Knight, Lady
Knatchbull’s possession 186;
‘Mock Panegyric on a Young
Friend’ 75, 185; ‘The Mystery’
40–2; ‘Plan of a Novel’ 97–9 and
notes; Sanditon (‘The Last Work’):
‘the manuscript on which she was
engaged’ 127; family views on
publishing it 184; Anna Lefroy
attempts to complete it 261
headnote; précis published 3; ‘To
the Memory of Mrs Lefroy’ 49–50;
‘When Winchester Races’ (JA’s
deathbed verses) 130 and note, 138,
190–1; The Watsons (so titled by
JEAL) 3, 59 and note
Austen, Mary, see Mary Lloyd
Austen, Mary Jane (1807–1836; daughter
of Frank Austen and JA’s niece)
121–2 and note, 174
Austen, Philadelphia, see Hancock,
Philadelphia
Austen-Leigh, Revd James Edward
(1798–1874; JA’s nephew) ill. lxiv;
Index
his biography i; JA on his character
126; early memories of JA 10, 65–6,
70; JA’s letters to 120–2, 122–4,
129–30; at JA’s funeral 9, 187
literary activities: writing a novel 123
and note, 142, 150; Recollections
of . . . the Vine Hunt 21 and note
Memoir of JA: major changes between
first and second edns. xlix–l; edits
JA’s manuscript writings for second
edition of Memoir 3; motive for
writing 10, 132–3; help from sisters
and cousin 10, and passim; ‘extreme
scantiness of . . . materials’ 132;
undertakes researches for 189–90
Baillie, Joanna 90
Baillie, Dr Matthew, Prince Regent’s
physician 92 n., 176
Barrett, Mrs Ann 118 and note, 195–7
and note
Barrett, Eaton Stannard, The Heroine 88,
89
Bath, JA living in 58–65
Beattie, James, The Minstrel 93
Bentley, Richard, publisher 258 headnote
Bigg, Alethea 126–7, 128, 179
Bigg, Catherine (later wife of Revd
Herbert Hill) 110
Bigg, Elizabeth (later Mrs William
Heathcote) 128, 129, 179
Bigg-Wither, Harris, brother of Alethea,
etc.: proposes to JA 29 n., 187–8, 191
Blackall, Revd Dr Samuel 191–2
Brontë, Charlotte, compared to JA 91,
96–7; on JA’s novels 97
Brunton, Mary, Self-Control 75 n., 106
and note
Brydges, Sir Egerton, recollections of
JA 44 and note
Brydges, Mary (Poll; JA’s greatgrandmother)
44 and note, 184
Burney, Frances (Fanny) 20, 104, 154;
Evelina and Camilla 20, 105; and
Samuel Johnson 90; JA’s prose style
preferred to Burney’s ‘grandiloquent’
style 71
Cadell, Thomas, publisher: refuses the
manuscript of a novel by JA 105 and
note