By Margaret Doody

In Jane Austen’s works, a reputation is rarely only a identify. actually, the names Austen supplies her characters and areas are as wealthy in refined that means as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for instance, the house county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue that this heroine isn't as silly as she turns out: in keeping with legend, crafty Wiltshire citizens stuck hiding contraband in a pond capitalized on a name for lack of understanding by means of claiming they have been digging up a “big cheese”—the moon’s mirrored image at the water’s floor. It worked.

In Jane Austen’s Names, Margaret Doody deals a desirable and complete examine of all of the names of individuals and places—real and imaginary—in Austen’s fiction. Austen’s inventive collection of names finds not just her virtuosic expertise for riddles and puns. Her names additionally decide up deep tales from English historical past, in particular a few of the civil wars, and the blood-tinged alterations that performed out within the reign of Henry VIII, a interval to which she usually returns. contemplating the key novels along unfinished works and juvenilia, Doody indicates how Austen’s names sign type tensions in addition to nearby, ethnic, and spiritual changes. We achieve a brand new realizing of Austen’s means of artistic anachronism, which performs with and opposed to her skillfully deployed realism—in her books, the conflicts of the earlier swirl into the tensions of the current, transporting readers past the Regency.

packed with perception and surprises for even the main dedicated Janeite, Jane Austen’s Names will revolutionize how we learn Austen’s fiction.

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He looks like one of the dark Celts, and his small, wiry, and dark-haired sister likewise; Mary is a complement and no threat to the tall blonde Bertram girls. Austen occasionally refers to skin color. Of Emma Watson, “well made & plump,” we are told, “Her skin was very brown, but clear, smooth and glowing” (Watsons, Later Manuscripts, 293). ” (P&P, III, ch. 3). Such descriptions touch upon the issue of race. Elizabeth is not a blonde like her mother and elder sister; she has “dark eyes” as Darcy notes, and her figure is “light and pleasing” (I, ch.

The Romans, who valued the British Isles chiefly as a fortifiable redoubt protecting territory in Gaul, left roads and settled encampments. ” The cathedral city of Winchester where Jane Austen died was once a Roman fortified town, though its name also refers to pre-Celtic Venta—a name figuring in Jane Austen’s last literary work, her deathbed verses on Winchester and Saint Swithin. Fresh invasions came from northern Europe, incursion of Frisians and Jutes (from Jutland). The largest groups of newcomers were the Saxons and the Angles; according to Bede, emigrating Angles emptied their region of Germany.

Ca. 1664) 8. Francesco Bartolozzi, engraving after portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, Charles Pratt, First Earl Camden (1795) 9. Richard Cosway, King George IV (1780–82) 10. Joseph Strutt, Condemnation and Execution of Edmund (1792) 11. William Blake, The Ordeal of Queen Emma (ca. ) 12. George Romney, Emma, Lady Hamilton (1785) 13. Sir William Beechy, Horatio Nelson (1800) 14. Thomas Rowlandson, The Concert (1798) 15. Pierre Condé, engraving after portrait by John Opie, Charlotte Smith (née Turner) (1797) 16.

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