1814 [May] _Mansfield Park._ A novel. In three volumes. By the author of _Sense and Sensibility_ and _Pride and Prejudice_. London: printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1814. 12mo.
[Vols. I and III were printed by G. Sidney, Northumberland Street, Strand; Vol. II by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar.]
1815 [Dec.] _Emma._ A novel. In three volumes. By the author of _Pride and Prejudice_, &c., &c. London: printed for John Murray, 1816. 12mo.
[Vols. I and II were printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar; Vol. III by J. Moyes, Greville Street, Hatton Garden, London.]
1816 [Feb.] _Mansfield Park._ A novel. In three volumes. By the author of _Pride and Prejudice_. Second edition. London: printed for J. Murray, Albemarle Street, 1816. 12mo.
[Vols. I and III were printed by J. Moyes, Greville Street, Hatton Garden, London; Vol. II by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar.]
1817 _Pride and Prejudice._ A novel. In two volumes.
By the author of _Sense and Sensibility_, &c.
Third edition. London: printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1817. 12mo.
[Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar.]
1818 _Northanger Abbey_ and _Persuasion_. By the author of _Pride and Prejudice_, _Mansfield Park_, &c.
With a biographical notice of the author. In four volumes. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1818. 12mo.
[Vols. I and II, containing _Northanger Abbey_, were printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar; Vols. III and IV, containing _Persuasion_, by T. Davison, Lombard Street, Whitefriars, London.]
1824 _L"Abbaye de Northanger_; traduit de l"anglais de Jeanne Austen, auteur d"_Orgueil et Prejuge_, du _Parc de Mansfield_, de la _Famille Elliott_, de la Nouvelle _Emma_, &c. Par Mme. Hyacinthe de F.**** [Ferrieres]. 3 tom. Paris. Pigoreau.
12mo.
[There is a short "Notice biographique" taken from the English edition.]
1833 _Novels by Miss Jane Austen._ "Standard Novels"
series. Five volumes. London: Richard Bentley.
8vo.
[This series contains a set of steel engravings--two to each novel, a frontispiece and a vignette after Pickering. _Sense and Sensibility_ contains a biographical notice (by Henry Austen), which includes a few facts not mentioned in the preface to the original edition of _Northanger Abbey_.]
1870 _A Memoir of Jane Austen._ By her nephew, J. E.
Austen Leigh. London: Richard Bentley & Son.
pp. 236. 8vo.
1871 _A Memoir of Jane Austen._ By her nephew, J. E.
Austen Leigh. Second edition; to which is added _Lady Susan_ and fragments of two other unfinished tales by Miss Austen. London: Richard Bentley & Son. pp. 364. 8vo.
1880 _Jane Austen and her Works._ By Sarah Tytler.
London: Ca.s.sell, Petter, Galpin & Co. pp. viii-386.
8vo.
[This contains a Life drawn from the _Memoir_, and a resume 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 Ca.s.sandra; (2) letters from Jane to f.a.n.n.y Knight; (3) letters from Jane to Anna Austen (Mrs. B. Lefroy); and (4) two letters from Ca.s.sandra to f.a.n.n.y 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 s.p.a.ce 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 ill.u.s.trations 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-x.x.xi. 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 ill.u.s.trations 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 ill.u.s.trations by Miss Fletcher. London: J. M.
Dent & Co. pp. xv-139. 8vo.
1895-7 _Jane Austen"s Novels._ With ill.u.s.trations by Hugh Thomson [but _Pride and Prejudice_ is ill.u.s.trated 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 "Ill.u.s.trated Pocket Cla.s.sics."]