His thesis seeks to consider a number of pertinent questions: What were contemporary novelists writing? How easy was it for a woman writing in the nineteenth century? How successful was Austen compared to her peers? How astute was she, entering the literary marketplace at a time when female authors were at their most prolific? Answering these questions might lead to Austen being considered, not as an isolated author, but as one who was very much a part of the publishing world of the early nineteenth century. Anthony Mandal (BA Dunelm, MA Wales) is a PhD student at Cardiff University, examining the literary and publishing world faced by Jane Austen in the 1810s.
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