December –
Jane Austen's first and last completed novels, respectively Northanger Abbey and Persuasion are published together by
John Murray in London (dated 1818), six months after the author's death at
Winchester. Her brother Henry Austen contributes a biographical note, which first publicly identifies her as the author of her previously anonymous novels. She had earned £684 in her lifetime from her writing.
^Scott, Walter (2010) [1829].
Lang, Andrew (ed.). Rob Roy. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press. p. 69. It is an event unprecedented in the annals either of literature or of the custom-house that the entire cargo of a packet, or smack, bound from Leith to London, should be the impression of a novel.
December –
Jane Austen's first and last completed novels, respectively Northanger Abbey and Persuasion are published together by
John Murray in London (dated 1818), six months after the author's death at
Winchester. Her brother Henry Austen contributes a biographical note, which first publicly identifies her as the author of her previously anonymous novels. She had earned £684 in her lifetime from her writing.
^Scott, Walter (2010) [1829].
Lang, Andrew (ed.). Rob Roy. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press. p. 69. It is an event unprecedented in the annals either of literature or of the custom-house that the entire cargo of a packet, or smack, bound from Leith to London, should be the impression of a novel.