Author: Jane Austen

Cited by

• Ian McEwan (1)
  • IN: Atonement (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Dear Miss Morland, consider the dreadful nature of the suspicions you have entertained. What have you been judging from? Remember the country and the age in which we live. Remember that we are English: that we are Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable your own observation of what is passing around you. Does our education prepare us for such atrocities? Do our laws connive at them? Could they be perpretrated without being known in a country like this, where social and literaty intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open? Dearest Miss Morland, what ideas have you been admitting? They had reached the end of the gallery; and with tears of shame she ran off to her own room.
    FROM: Northanger Abbey, (1817), Novel, UK
• Ali Smith (1)
  • IN: the accidental (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The whole industry dwindled soon into a matter of little importance but to Emma and her nephews: - in her imagination it maintained its ground, and Henry and John were still asking every day for the story of Harriet and the gipsies, and still tenaciously setting her right if she varied in the slightest particular from the original recital.
    FROM: Emma, (1815), Novel, UK
• Julian Gough (2)
  • IN: Juno and Juliet (2001) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: ...[M]an has the advantage of choice, woman only the power of refusal...
    FROM: Northanger Abbey, (1817), Novel, UK
  • IN: Juno & Juliet (2001) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: ...[M]an has the advantage of choice, woman only the power of refusal...
    FROM: Northanger Abbey, (1817), Novel, UK
• Rosie Rushton (1)
  • IN: Whatever Love Is (2012) Short Stories, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nobody meantto be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.
    FROM: Mansfield Park, (1814), Novel, UK
• Patrice Kindl (2)
  • IN: A School For Brides (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I should not like marrying a disagreeable man any more than yourself; but I do not think there are many very disagreeable men; I think I could like any good-humoured man with a comfortable income.
    FROM: The Watsons, (1805), Novel, UK
  • IN: Keeping the Castle (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honorable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
    FROM: Pride and Prejudice, (1813), Novel, UK
• Alice Oseman (1)
  • IN: Solitaire (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them."
    FROM: Pride and Prejudice, (1813), Novel, UK
• Diana Peterfreund (1)
  • IN: For Darkness Shows the Stars (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.
    FROM: Persuasion, (1818), Novel, UK
• Tamara Ireland Stone (1)
  • IN: Time After Time (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Time will explain.
    FROM: Persuasion, (1818), Novel, UK
• Anne Kogler (1)
  • IN: The Death Catchers (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Darcy mentioned his letter. "Did it," said he, "did it soon make you think better of me,? Did you, on reading it, give any credit to its contents?" She explained what its effect on her had been, and how gradually all her former prejudices had been removed.
    FROM: Pride and Prejudice, (1813), Novel, UK
• Michaela MacColl (1)
  • IN: Secrets in the Snow (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" "Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it."
    FROM: Sense and Sensibility, (1811), Novel, UK
• Emily Arsenault (1)
  • IN: What Strange Creatures (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What strange creatures brothers are!
    FROM: Mansfield Park, (1814), Novel, UK
• Kate Beaufoy (1)
  • IN: Another Heartbeat In the House (2015) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any motive than to save my life
    FROM: Letter to James Stanier Clarke, (1816), Letter, UK
• Marcia Talley (1)
  • IN: Dead Man Dancing (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Where shall we see a better daughter or a kinder sister or a truer friend?
    FROM: Emma, (1815), Novel, UK
• Karen Joy Fowler (1)
  • IN: The Jane Austen Book Club (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Seldom, very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
    FROM: Emma, (1815), Novel, UK
• Greer MacAllister (1)
  • IN: The Magician's Lie (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Those who tell their own story, you know, must be listened to with caution.
    FROM: Sandition, (1925), Novel, UK
• Lucinda Rosenfeld (1)
  • IN: The Pretty One (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies -- about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are: all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family; it is a regular thing. Two play on the pianoforte, and one on the harp; and all sing, or would sing if they were taught, or sing all the better for not being taught; or something like it.
    FROM: Mansfield Park, (1814), Novel, UK
• Rachel Pastan (1)
  • IN: This Side of Married (2004) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield," said Mrs. Bennet to her husband, "and all the others equally well married, I shall have nothing to wish for."
    FROM: Pride and Prejudice, (1813), Novel, UK
• Beth Patillo (1)
  • IN: Jane Austen Ruined My Life (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
    FROM: Northanger Abbey, (1817), Novel, UK
• Mia March (1)
  • IN: Finding Colin Firth (2013) fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
    FROM: Pride and Prejudice, (1813), Novel, UK
• G. M. Malliet (1)
  • IN: Pagan Spring (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.
    FROM: Pride and Prejudice, (1813), Novel, UK
• Rosamund Lupton (1)
  • IN: Sister (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Where shall we see a better daughter or a kinder sister or a truer friend?
    FROM: Emma, (1815), Novel, UK
• Evans Harriet (1)
  • IN: Happily Ever After (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.
    FROM: Northanger Abbey, (1817), Novel, UK
• Judith Kinghorn (1)
  • IN: The Memory of Lost Senses (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
    FROM: Mansfield Park, (1814), Novel, UK
• Jonathan L. Howard (1)
  • IN: The Brothers Cabal (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What strange creatures brothers are!
    FROM: Mansfield Park, (1814), Novel, UK
• Louisa Hall (1)
  • IN: The Carriage House (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Yes, he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will and his hands had done it, that she owed it to his perception of her fatigue, and his resolution to give her rest.
    FROM: Persuasion, (1817), Novel, UK
• Lindsay Ashford (1)
  • IN: The Mysterious Death of Miss Jane Austen (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "There are secrets in all families, you know..."
    FROM: Emma, (1815), Novel, UK
• Julie James (1)
  • IN: Practice Makes Perfect (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
    FROM: Pride and Prejudice, (1813), Novel, UK
• Victoria Connelly (3)
  • IN: Mr. Darcy Forever (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Do not be in a hurry: depend upon it, the right Man will come at last.'
    FROM: Letters 1817, (1817), Letter, UK
  • IN: The Perfect Hero (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Is not general incivility the very essence of love?'
    FROM: Elizabeth, Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, (1813), Novel, UK
  • IN: Dreaming of Mr. Darcy (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Is not general incivility the very essence of love?'
    FROM: Elizabeth, Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, (1813), Novel, UK
• Stephanie Barron (1)
  • IN: Jane and the madness of Lord Byron (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Pictures of perfection as you know make me sick & wicked.
    FROM: letter to niece, (1817), Letter, UK
• Julia Barrett (1)
  • IN: Presumption (1993) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. * Pemberley was now Georgiana’s home; and the attachment of the sisters was exactly what Darcy had hoped to see. They were able to love each other even as well as they intended. Georgiana had the highest opinion in the world of Elizabeth; though at first she often listened with an astonishment bordering on alarm at her lively, sportive, manner of talking to her brother. He, who had always inspired in herself a respect which almost overcame her affection, she now saw the object of open pleasantry. Her mind received knowledge which had never before fallen in her way. By Elizabeth’s instructions, she began to comprehend that a woman may take liberties with her husband which a brother will not always allow in a sister more than ten years younger than himself.
    FROM: Pride and Prejudice, (1813), Novel, UK
• Laurie Horowitz (1)
  • IN: The Family Fortune (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: All the privilege, I claim for my own sex…is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
    FROM: Persuasion, (1818), Novel, UK
• Phillippi Ryan, Hank (1)
  • IN: Truth be Told (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
    FROM: Emma, (1815), Novel, UK
• Manton Lodge, Hillary (1)
  • IN: Jane Of Austen (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
    FROM: Mansfield Park, (1814), Novel, UK
• Jennifer Ziegler (2)
  • IN: Sass & Serendipity (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
    FROM: Pride and Prejudice, (1813), NULL, UK
• Adrienne Maria Vrettos (1)
  • IN: The Exile of Gigi Lane (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility."
    FROM: Pride and Prejudice, (1813), Novel, UK
• Katherine Reay (1)
  • IN: The Austen Escape (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: [A novel] is.... only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineations of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.
    FROM: Northanger Abbey, (1817), Novel, UK