Abstract
In 1816 on the last birthday before her death, Jane Austen wrote to her nephew, James Edward Austen, who had lost two and half chapters of his never published novel, that she could not have been suspected of purloining it since she was not at Steventon when the loss occurred. She continued,
I do not think however that any theft of that sort would be really very useful to me. What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited Sketches, full of Variety … Glow? — How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush, as produces little effect after much labour?1
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
Jane Austen, Jane Austen’s Letters, ed. Deirdre le Faye, 3rd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 323.
Jon Mee, ‘Austen’s Treacherous Ivory. Female Patriotism, Domestic Ideology, and Empire’, in The Postcolonial Jane Austen, ed. You-me Park and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 74–91.
Quoted in Sarah Coffin and Bodo Hofstetter, The Gilbert Collection: Portrait Miniatures in Enamel (London: Philip Wilson, 2000), p. 40.
David H. Solkin, Art on the Line The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780–1836 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001), p. 193.
John Murdoch, Jim Murrell, Patrick J. Noon and Roy Strong, The English Miniature (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981), pp. 192, 180.
Shirley Bury, An Introduction to Sentimental Jewellery. Victoria and Albert Museum Introductions to the Decorative Arts (Owings Mills, MD: Stemmer House, 1985), p. 40.
Andrew Robertson, Letters and Papers of Andrew Robertson, 2nd edn (London: Eyre … Spottiswoode, 1897), pp. 61–2, 151.
Martin Archer Shee RA, Rhymes on Art; or, the Remonstrance of a Painter, 2nd edn (London: H. Ebers, 1805), pp. 31–3.
George Henry Lewes, The Novels of Jane Austen’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 125 (July 1859), p. 103.
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811), ed. R. W. Chapman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1927), p. 60.
A. Barbeau in Life and Letters in Bath in the Eighteenth Century (London: Heinemann, 1904):
Letter to Mrs Phyllis Franklin, between 15 and 20 June 1814. The Journal of Mary Frampton, ed. Harriot Georgiana Munday, 2nd edn (London: Sampson Low, 1885), p. 226.
Jane Austen’s Emma, Quarterly Review, 14 (March 1816), pp. 188–201;
Jane Austen’s The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, ed. W. E. K. Anderson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), p. 121.
G. H. Lewes, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 87 (March 1860), p. 335;
Jane Austen’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 86 (July 1859), pp. 99–113.
R. W. Chapman, Jane Austen: Facts and Problems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948), p. 124.
B. C. Southam, Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage, 1870–1940 (London: Routledge, 1987) II, pp. 198–202;
George Saintsbury, A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780–1895) (London: Macmillan and Co, 1896), p. 683.
Reginald Farrer, Quarterly Review, 228 (July 1817), pp. 1–30;
Robert Alan Donovan, The Mind of Jane Austen’, in Jane Austen Today, ed. Joel Weinsheimer (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1975), p. 119.
Donald Greene, The Myth of Limitation’, in Jane Austen Today, ed. Joel Weinsheimer (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1975), pp. 142–75
John Wiltshire, Jane Austen and the Body (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 3.
James Thompson, Between Self and World: the Novels o f Jane Austen (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988), p. 101.
Jane Austen, Emma, ed. R. W. Chapman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 360.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2005 Janet Todd
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Todd, J. (2005). Ivory Miniatures and the Art of Jane Austen. In: Batchelor, J., Kaplan, C. (eds) British Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230595972_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230595972_6
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-52556-0
Online ISBN: 978-0-230-59597-2
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts CollectionLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)