Titlebook: Jane Austen and the Victorian Heroine; Cheryl A. Wilson Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 Gender.Nineteenth c

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Updating Austen: Catherine Hubback and Emily Eden, update Jane Austen and her heroines by combining elements of her fiction with popular genres, such as the silver fork novel, and incorporating contemporary mid-Victorian social concerns into their texts. For these writers, Austen became useful for negotiating questions about the development of the

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,“A Girl Writing of Girls”,man frequently positioned Jane Austen—both her life and writings—as a model of the idealized “Angel in the House” femininity that the New Woman threatened to overturn. Late-Victorian women writers including George Paston and Amy Levy were savvy readers of Austen, however, and frequently incorporate

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,Victorian Readers and “England’s Jane”,f Englishness that was particularly suited to the changing national identity of the late nineteenth century. This Englishness was evoked by a historical nostalgia that linked Austen to the places she lived in and wrote about and glorified the sense of community depicted in her novels. Such connectio

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978-3-319-87440-1The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62965-0Gender; Nineteenth century; Biography; Women‘s writing; Criticism; National identity; British and Irish Li

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Introduction,y popular culture. It then sets out a critical framework that emphasizes the agency of Victorian readers and writers and highlights the ways in which they make use of Austen and her novels by actively engaging with both her biography and her works, bringing them to bear on various contemporary situations.

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