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  DEVONEY LOOSER

Books.

SISTER NOVELISTS (forthcoming September 6, 2022)

Sister Novelists: Jane and Anna Maria Porter in the Age of Austen, is the biography of two once-celebrated, pioneering, but now-forgotten British women writers, whose never-before-told life stories read like a novel. The book will be published by Bloomsbury on September 6, 2022, It's now available for pre-order.
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I'm incredibly grateful to have been a Guggenheim Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellow in support of this book. I talk a little about it in this short video. 
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My daily recommended dose of Austen quotations, The Daily Jane Austen, was published by the University of Chicago Press (2019). I've edited the Penguin Deluxe Classics edition of Austen's Sense and Sensibility (2019), The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period (Cambridge UP, 2015), Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism (Palgrave Macmillan, 1995), and co-edited Generations:  Academic Feminists in Dialogue (U of Minnesota P, 1997). With a team of students, I co-edited the first modern edition of Jane West's A Gossip's Story (2015) for Valancourt Books. Click on the images below for more information about each title. 
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THE MAKING OF JANE AUSTEN

I'm the author or editor of nine books on literature by women, including 
The Making of Jane Austen (2017) a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book (Nonfiction). It's also available in a paperback edition, with an afterword and reader's guide. Many extra illustrations for The Making of Jane Austen are archived on the book's dedicated website. 

Below is a five-minute fast-and-furious video introduction to the book (with slides!), as well as a fun ASU Research book trailer for The Making of Jane Austen, featuring an appearance by the amazing ASU Derby Devils. 

I'm the author or editor of nine books on literature by women, including The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes (2019) and The Making of Jane Austen (2017), a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book (Nonfiction).
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The Daily Jane Austen
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Jane West's A Gossip's Story (1796)
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Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility
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Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period
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Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850
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British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820
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Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism
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Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue
©2022 Devoney Looser, Dept. of English, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1401
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