Jane Austen entire

Name: Jane Austen Entire
Author: Jane Austen

Complete untranslated source text — the original English

The complete public-domain Jane Austen — the six novels, the fragments and juvenilia, ninety-four letters of the 1884 Brabourne edition, and the verse — in her own English, arranged in the order she wrote them. A glossary of every person and place sits alongside, and the small late-published remainder joins the edition as it enters the public domain.

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What makes this different

A few things, taken together, set this edition apart. Click any to expand.

Austen in Austen's English.

No translation is claimed or performed. The readable text is public-domain English source text, cleaned out of archive wrappers and set in chapters and letters, with Austen's own spellings — 'Freindship', 'cheifly', 'Tythes' — and the manuscript abbreviations of the diplomatic texts preserved rather than modernized.

Arranged as a writing life.

The works run by composition, not publication: the juvenilia at 1788-1793, Lady Susan at 1794, Northanger Abbey at its 1803 completion, the great Chawton novels in their writing order, and Sanditon and the Winchester verses at the 1817 end. Posthumous first printings (1871, 1922, 1925, 1926) are recorded in every headnote.

The letters as a corpus.

Ninety-four letters of 1796-1816 from the two-volume Brabourne edition of 1884, one letter per section under Brabourne's own numbering — the balls and bonnets of Steventon, the publication years of the novels, the advice to Fanny Knight and Anna, and the backwards letter to little Cassy — with the editor's frame removed and every scanner-era correction logged.

Honest scope, dated to the year.

The edition is complete to the US public domain and says exactly where that line falls: letters first collected in 1932, the Volume the First and Volume the Third notebooks, the three prayers, and a handful of later-printed poems remain outside it for now, listed on this page with their expected entry dates rather than passed over in silence.