The Jane Austen Search Engine

The following resources are sites that are definitely searched by the Jane Austen Search Engine.  Although not everything that the Search Engine will query is listed here, these sites have the potential to be useful to the reader as reference sources on Jane Austen's works and life.  The resources are organized into the categories shown in the list below (but are in no particular order within each category).  Click on any link to jump to that section of the resource list.

Due to the wide range of user and fan generated materials available on the net about Jane Austen, we have not discriminated on various websites that appear to contain content that is not of academic quality.   We make no claims as to the accuracy of any materials found through the Jane Austen search engine.  The purpose of this site is to perform a targeted search on Jane Austen related sites on the web, not necessarily to perform a search on the most highly reliable Austen content.

• University of Virginia
• Project Gutenberg HTML Texts hosted at UPenn
• HTML Texts from Gutenberg.org
• Bibliomania
• The British Library Online Gallery
• Pemberly.com eTexts
• Bartleby.com
• Other resources

The one element that these blogs all share is that they are centered around Jane Austen in some way. Although some of these blogs may be dormant, they have been added to the Jane Austen Search Engine because their posts may still be of interest. Blogs that contain lots of Austen-related content have been added here where possible, although the list is not comprehensive.

Austenblog (http://austenblog.com/)

Jane Austen Today (http://janitesonthejames.blogspot.com)/

Jane Austen's World (http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com)/

Jane Austen Addict Blog (http://blog.janeaustenaddict.com/)

Jane Austen Addict Main Site(http://janeaustenaddict.com/)

Austenprose (http://austenprose.com)/

Austentatious (http://austentatious.blogspot.com/)

Austen.com Blog (http://austen.com/blog/)

Sharp Elves Society Blog(http://sharpelvessociety.blogspot.com/)

The Jane Austen House Museum Blog of the Writer in Residence (http://www.janeaustenshousemuseum.blogspot.com/)

Following Austen (http://followingausten.blogspot.com/)<

Jane Austen in Vermont - Blog of the Vermont JASNA regional chapter (http://janeausteninvermont.wordpress.com/)

Austen Quotes (http://janeaustenquotes.typepad.com/)

Jane Austen PodNovel Blog (http://janeaustenpodnovel.com/)

JaneAustenFans (http://community.livejournal.com/janeaustenfans)

Janeites (http://blog.janeites.net/)

The New York Times ArtsBeat blog, posts tagged as related to Jane Austen only (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/jane-austen/)

Miss Sylvia Drake (http://misssylviadrake.livejournal.com/)

Ellen and Jim Have a Blog, Too (http://ellenandjim.wordpress.com/)

Light, Bright and Sparkling http://www.lightbrightandsparkling.blogspot.com/

AustenOnly http://austenonly.com/about/

Jane Austen Festival Australia Blog http://www.janeaustenfestival.blogspot.com/

Jane Austen Society of Brazil Blog (Portuguese) http://www.janeaustenfestival.blogspot.com/

General Sites

http://www.pemberley.com  - A community for Austen Lovers

http://www.janeausten.org/

http://www.janeausten.co.uk/ - Home page for the Jane Austen center in Bath, UK

http://www.austen.com/ - Home to the Darbyshire’s Writers Guild, a Jane Austen fan fiction club

http://www.findingjaneausten.com/

Jane Austen Society of North America http://www.jasna.org/

Jane Austen Society of the UK http://www.janeaustensoci.freeuk.com/

Jane Austen Society of Australia http://www.jasa.net.au/

Jane Austen Society of Melbourne http://home.vicnet.net.au/~janeaust/

Jane Austen Festival of Australia http://www.janeaustenfestival.com.au/

Jane Austen Society of Buenos Aires http://www.janeaustenba.org/

Jane Austen Society of Brazil http://www.jasbra.com.br

Alliance of Literary Societies for the UK http://www.allianceofliterarysocieties.org.uk/

Royal Society of Literature, Britain http://www.rslit.org/

Online Texts

University of Virginia

Collected Letters (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AusLett.html)

Emma (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AusEmma.html) (illustrated)

Mansfield Park (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AusMans.html)

Northanger Abbey (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AusNort.html)

Persuasion (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AusPers.html)

Pride and Prejudice (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AusPrid.html)

Sense and Sensibility (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AusSens.html)

Sanditon (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AusSndt.html)

Project Gutenberg HTML Texts hosted at UPenn

Emma http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=158

Love and Freindship http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1212

Mansfield Park http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=141

Northanger Abbey http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=121

Persuasion http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=105

Pride and Prejudice http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1342

Sense and Sensibility http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=161

Sense and Sensibility (Macmillan 1902 edition) http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=21839

HTML Texts at Gutenberg.org

Emma http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31100/31100-h/files/158/158-h/158-h.htm

Lady Susan http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31100/31100-h/files/946/946-h/946-h.htm

Mansfield Park http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31100/31100-h/files/141/141-h/141-h.htm

Northanger Abbey http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31100/31100-h/files/121/121-h/121-h.htm

Persuasion http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31100/31100-h/files/105/105-h/105-h.htm

Pride and Prejudice http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31100/31100-h/files/1342/1342-h/1342-h.htm

Sense and Sensibility http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31100/31100-h/files/21839/21839-h/21839-h.htm

Bibliomania

All works http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/6/frameset.html

Emma http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/6/7/frameset.html

Lady Susan http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/6/12/frameset.html

Mansfield Park http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/6/9/frameset.html

Northanger Abbey http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/6/10/frameset.html

Persuasion http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/6/11/frameset.html

Pride and Prejudice http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/6/frameset.html

Sense and Sensibility http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/6/1957/frameset.html

British Library: Online Gallery

The History of England http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/austen/accessible/introduction.html

Pemberly.com etexts

Lady Susan http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/ladysusn.html

Letters of Jane Austen  - Braborne Edition http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/brablets.html

Love and Freindship http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/lovfrend.html

Plan of a Novel according to Hints from Various Quarters http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/plannovl.html

Pride and Prejudice http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/pridprej.html

The Watsons http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/watsons1.html

  
Bartleby.com

Pride and Prejudice http://www.bartleby.com/303/2/

Other

An Online Dating Guide to Courting in the Victorian Era, with special thanks to the students of the Green Mountain Central School District in Vermont. The Victorian era directly followed the Regency Era. Jane Austen died about 20 years before this period began. http://www.datehookup.com/content-an-online-dating-guide-to-courting-in-the-victorian-era.htm

A concordance to the works of Jane Austen (ability to look up the use of a word in all of Austen’s texts) http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Austen.html

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen http://www.cambridge.org/us/series/sSeries.asp?code=CEJA

Her Life and History of Regency England
Jane Austen was born in Steventon, in north Hampshire, England in 1775.  She wrote initial drafts of what would become three of her major novels, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey while she lived in Steventon.  In 1801 she moved to Bath, England, with her parents and sister Cassandra.  No novels were written in this period.  In 1805 Austen’s father died, and a few years later, in 1807, the remaining Austen women (including both Jane’s mother and sister Cassandra) resettled for a time in Southampton.  In 1811, they moved again, to a country setting in Chawton, Hampshire.  Austen then saw the successful publication of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice (1811 and 1813, respectively), and she wrote her major works Mansfield Park (published  1814), Emma (published 1815), and Persuasion (published posthumously in 1818) during this period.   Austen died on the 28^th of July 1817 in Winchester, where she had been moved during the more serious portion of her final illness.  She is buried in the floor of Winchester Cathedral.   Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously in 1818.

Disclaimer: The following list of resources are related either to the historical time period when Jane Austen lived or to places in England where she lived.   Non-scholarly "fan pages" are included in these lists as well, principally because they contain images that may be of interest (such as illustrations of fashion during Regency times).  However, the producers of the Jane Austen Search Engine urge you to evaluate such sites carefully for accuracy and reliability of information, and to double-check this information using resources such as subscription databases or print materials from your local library.

Places

Steventon Wikipedia Article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steventon,_Hampshire

Jane Austen’s House Museum (Chawton House) http://jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk/

Chawton House Library http://www.chawton.org/

The Village of Chawton http://www.chawton.info/

Jane Austen’s Hampshire (Produced by the Hampshire City Council)

• http://www3.hants.gov.uk/austen  (all links)
• http://www.hants.gov.uk/austen

Official Tourism website for Bath, England http://www.visitbath.co.uk/

Seeking Jane Austen – a guide to places associated with Jane Austen http://www.seekingjaneausten.com/

Regency England

Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England.  Review of a 1994 book by Austen scholar Roger Sales.  Review written by Austen Scholar Jill Heydt-Stevenson.  http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2220/is_n3_v37/ai_17491998/

Wikipedia page on the Prince Regent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_regent

Wikipedia page on Beau Brummell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beau_Brummell

A personal site with references related to Regency England http://hibiscus-sinensis.com/regency/index.htm

Another apparent personal site dedicated to the Regency period http://www.regencyengland.com/

Regency Fashion http://www.fashion-era.com/regency_taste.htm

A personal page about food and Drink in Regency England - http://www.chinet.com/~laura/html/recipes.html

British Regency article on Wikipedia and all links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Regency

Works About Austen and Adaptations

 This section provides a very sparsely populated list of available web articles on Jane Austen and adaptations of her works - It would be impossible to generate a comprehensive list of these resources; nevertheless, we are aware of some of these resources so we have included them in the Jane Austen Search Engine index. 

Movie Adaptations

Hartfield – a site dedicated to the Miramax version of Emma

http://emmaknightley.tripod.com/

 
Q&A with Lindsay Duran, producer of Sense and Sensibility Movie Adaptation

http://www.salon.com/02dec1995/features/duran.html

 
 
Online Articles about Austen

Laura Miller on Salon. “Austen-Mania.”  December 1995. http://www.salon.com/02dec1995/features/austen.html

 
 Online Books About Jane Austen

Portrait Gallery Of Eminent Men And Women Of Europe And America  By Evert A. Duyckinck  (Published 1872)

A Memoir of Jane Austen by her nephew, J. E. Austen-Leigh (2nd Ed. 1871) http://labrocca.com/ja/index.html