![]() ![]() She sold the publishing rights to a bookseller, who never did publish it, just sat on it, refusing to return it and threatening legal repercussions should Austen seek publication elsewhere. In fact, Northanger Abbey was the first novel Jane Austen submitted for publication back in 1803. Northanger Abbey is one of Austen’s early works, a novel she’d already been working on during the 1790s, the same period that she was writing Sense and Sensibility (her first published novel) and Pride and Prejudice (her second published novel). ![]() In many ways, the novels are apt bookends to Austen’s authorship. During her lifetime, all of Austen’s works were published anonymously, variously “By a Lady” or “By the Author of …” RELATED: 50 BOOKS TO READ IF YOU LOVE JANE AUSTEN So here they were, two of Austen’s heretofore unpublished works, two completed novels by the master’s hand published together, and the first to ever openly name Jane Austen as their author. Persuasion and Northanger Abbey – a four-volume work – hit the market in late December 1817, although the title page lists 1818 as the publishing year. Six months after Jane Austen’s death, the first book EVER listing Jane Austen as its author was published. ![]()
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