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Austeniana

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Etymology

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From Austen +‎ -iana.

Noun

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Austeniana pl (plural only)

  1. Objects, materials, or documents relating to English novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817).
    • 1949, Marvin Mudrick, The Achievement of Jane Austen: A Study in Ironic Process, page 40:
      J. Austen, Plan of a Novel and Other Notes, ed. R. W. Chapman, Oxford, 1926: which reprints, among other valuable Austeniana, the complete correspondence between Mr. Clarke and Jane Austen.
    • 1999, Natalie Tyler, The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense & Sensibility, Viking, →ISBN, page 245:
      His [Henry G. Burke’s] wife, Alberta H. Burke, who died in 1975, had the greatest collections of Austeniana anywhere: every first edition, translation, American editions, all secondary source materials, and some manuscripts.
    • 2023, June Durant, Searching for Words in Jane Austen, Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN:
      [D. W.] Harding (Regulated Hatred) accused some who disseminated Austeniana.