Jane Austen



Description	écrivaine, nouvelliste et romancière britannique
Date de naissance / décès	16 décembre 1775	18 juillet 1817
Lieu de naissance / décès	Steventon	Winchester
Période d’activité	1787 –
Lieu de travail	Angleterre
Autorité	: Q36322 VIAF: 102333412 ISNI: 000000012283635X ULAN: 500249665 SUDOC: 02669719X BNF: 118896036 Open Library: OL21594A DBNL: aust003 LCCN: n79032879 GND: 118505173 SELIBR: 207420 NDL: 00431922 NLA: 35010277 BIBSYS: 90068190 MusicBrainz: 53e49c72-6e72-4fe0-a63f-f66e26e1d0a7 NKC: jn19990000321 SBN: CFIV017136 BNE: XX1124986 CiNii: DA00467633 NLP: a0000001187372 J9U: 987007258075105171 Koninklijke: 068721722 Oxford Dict.: 904 NLK: KAC199601201 WorldCat

Portraits

An 1804 watercolor of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra
A sketch of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra (c.1810)
Posthumous engraving of Austen published in the 1869-70 Memoir
Rather stiff 1873 re-engraving of the Memoir portrait
A relatively good reengraving of the Memoir portrait (ca. 1900)
Remastered detail from sketch of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra

Note: All the older published "portraits" of Austen were based on an engraving in the 1870 Edward Austen-Leigh Memoir of Jane Austen, which in turn was based on a somewhat rudimentary life sketch of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra (a sketch which was not considered too successful by some of those who had known Jane Austen), as reinterpreted and Victorianized in 1869 by Mr. Andrews of Maidenhead, Kent, and then the engraver (see Jane Austen: A Family Record, p. 253). The 1870 engraving which was the result of this process was further redone and reinterpreted in subsequent publications, with varying results. The accuracy of such "portraits" is thus somewhat doubtful.