Resource Guide:
Jane Austen

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Reading with Austen
• Chawton House
• Jane Austen Society of North America
• Jane Austen in Hampshire
• Jane Austen
• The Austen Family Music Books
• Jane Austen Timeline
• Jane Austen and Time
• Historical Context for Pride and Prejudice
• Austen Said: Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels
• Aesthetic Terms in Landscape and Literature
• Jane Austen
• Opinions of Mansfield Park collected by Jane Austen
• Searchable Jane Austen
• Letters of Jane Austen
• Jane Austen Fiction Manuscripts

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
• Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 - Biography
• Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 - Criticism and interpretation
• Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 - Family
• Novelists, English, 19th century, Biography

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Credo Reference
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale
• MasterFILE Premier
• OAISter
• Women’s Studies International

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
• Eighteenth-Century Studies
• Studies in English Literature
• English Literary History

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.