Jane Austen, Sanditon

Ana-Karina Schneider (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.06: English Writing and Culture of the Romantic Period, 1789-1837.
Vol. editors: Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Daniel Robinson (Widener University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1817

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Jane Austen began writing

Sanditon

under the draft title of “The Brothers” on 17 January 1817 and had completed 24,000 words and 12 chapters by 18 March of the same year when she became too ill with Addison’s disease to continue. She died on 18 July 1817. Extracts from the novel were published as “The Last Work” in Chapter 13 of the second edition of J. E. Austen-Leigh’s

Memoir of the life of Jane Austen

in 1871. The first complete publication was in the Chapman edition for Oxford University Press in 1925.

The subject of the novel is Sanditon, a fictional representation of the new seaside resorts which developed rapidly around the end of the eighteenth century.

The subject of the novel is Sanditon, a fictional representation of the new seaside resorts which developed rapidly…

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Citation: Schneider, Ana-Karina. "Sanditon". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 September 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2306, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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