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‘Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use’ - William Dyer

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Format Title Author/Contributor Source Date Published
Essay Celebrating women's writing: the pen in their hands Ros Ballaster 04 Mar 2020
Essay Exhibiting Maria Edgeworth and Her Fellow Literary Lions Ros Ballaster, Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull 25 Feb 2020
Essay Maria Edgeworth - A biographical note. Ros Ballaster 04 Feb 2020
Audio Male memory, female subject: the case of Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft Janet Todd https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 01 Mar 2019
eBook Lady Susan Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/3063 30 Mar 2017
eBook Love and Freindship Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/3064 27 Mar 2017
eBook The Watsons Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/3065 27 Mar 2017
Video What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls? Sandie Byrne http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 07 Oct 2013
Audio What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls? Sandie Byrne http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 07 Oct 2013
Audio The real Jane Austen: A life in small things Paula Byrne http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 01 Feb 2013
Audio Language and History Simon Horobin http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 30 Oct 2012
Image Bennet family at home (image) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 09 Oct 2012
Image Pride and Prejudice title page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 09 Oct 2012
Image Steventon Rectory https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 09 Oct 2012
Image Jane Austen's House in Chawton Rudi Riet https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 09 Oct 2012
Essay Tour: Women's Writing Alex Pryce 27 Sep 2012
Other Jane Austen’s readers (essay) Katie Halsey http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative-writing/history-reading-introduction-reading-the-past/content-section-3 16 Aug 2012
Essay Notions of Authorship Kate O'Connor 07 Aug 2012
Essay Approaching Political Literature Kate O'Connor 06 Aug 2012
Essay Feminist Approaches to Literature Kate O'Connor 03 Aug 2012
Essay Economic and Social Literary Criticism Kate O'Connor 03 Aug 2012
Video Genre (pt.2) Jane Rickard http://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/290-genre-pt2 03 Aug 2012
Video Genre (pt.1) Jane Rickard http://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/291-genre-pt1 03 Aug 2012
Essay Questions of Genre Kate O'Connor 03 Aug 2012
Essay Victorian Poetry and Fiction Charlotte Barrett 01 Aug 2012
eBook Northanger Abbey Jane Austen http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93n/ 16 Jul 2012
Video 'A Dead Silence': Reading Jane Austen's Mansfield Park pt2 Richard De Ritter http://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/323-a-dead-silence-reading-jane-austens-mansfield-park-pt2 13 Jul 2012
Video 'A Dead Silence': Reading Jane Austen's Mansfield Park pt1 Richard De RitterRichard De Ritter http://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/324-a-dead-silence-reading-jane-austens-mansfield-park-pt1 13 Jul 2012
Essay The Anonymous Jane Austen Kate O'Connor 11 Jul 2012
Audio Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored Kathryn Sutherland http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 08 Jun 2012
Video Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored Kathryn Sutherland http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 08 Jun 2012
Audio The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising Kathryn Sutherland http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 08 Jun 2012
Video The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising Kathryn Sutherland http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 08 Jun 2012
eBook Lady Susan Jane Austen http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93l/ 18 Apr 2012
eBook Northanger Abbey Jane Austen http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93n/ 18 Apr 2012
eBook Sense and sensibility Jane Austen http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93s/ 18 Apr 2012
eBook Pride and prejudice Jane Austen http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93pr/ 18 Apr 2012
eBook Mansfield park Jane Austen http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93m/ 18 Apr 2012
eBook Emma Jane Austen http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93e/ 18 Apr 2012
eBook Persuasion Jane Austen http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93p/ 18 Apr 2012
Essay Frances Burney: the "Mother of English Fiction" Kate O'Connor 13 Apr 2012
Other The uncensored Jane Austen Janet Todd https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/the-uncensored-jane-austen 13 Apr 2012
Essay Spiritualism, Science and Atavism Charlotte Barrett 10 Apr 2012
eBook Introductions to Jane Austen John Bailey https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks 05 Apr 2012
eBook Love & freindship [sic] and other early works : now first printed from the original ms. Jane Austen https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks 13 Mar 2012
eBook Sense and sensibility Jane Austen https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks 13 Mar 2012
eBook Northanger abbey, and Persuasion. Jane Austen https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks 13 Mar 2012
eBook Emma Jane Austen https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks 13 Mar 2012
eBook Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks 13 Mar 2012
eBook Mansfield park Jane Austen https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks 13 Mar 2012

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