Jane West (Consultant), Melinda O'Connell, Professor Devoney Looser
"The eighteenth-century bestseller that may have inspired Jane Austen's" Sense and Sensibility "republished for the first time in a modern edition" One of the most popular and prolific authors of her time, Jane West (1758-1852) enjoyed her greatest success with "A Gossip's Story, and A Legendary Tale" (1796), one of the best-selling novels of its era. Yet in addition to its significance as a lost classic by a neglected woman writer, "A Gossip's Story" has long been recognized by scholars as a likely influence on Jane Austen's celebrated novel "Sense and Sensibility" (1811). West's...
"The eighteenth-century bestseller that may have inspired Jane Austen's" Sense and Sensibility "republished for the first time in a modern edition"
