Reception history of Jane Austen Critic" felt that Austen's exclusive dependence on realism was evidence of a deficient imagination. The reviewer for the "Edinburgh Review" disagreed, praising Austen for her "exhaustless invention" and the combination of the familiar and the surprising in her plots. Overall, Austen scholars have pointed out that these early reviewers did not know what to make of her novels—for example, they misunderstood her use of irony. Reviewers reduced "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice" to didactic tales of virtue prevailing over vice. In the "Quarterly Review" in 1821, the English writer and theologian Richard Whately published the most serious and
The History of England (Austen) & Windus to publish the entire notebook under the name "Love and Freindship". The "History" was included in volume VI of R. W. Chapman's Oxford University Press edition of Jane Austen's complete works and since then has been published in several new editions and imprints. A German edition was published for the first time in 2009 by Luxbooks. The History of England (Austen) The History of England is a 1791 work by Jane Austen, written when the author was fifteen. The work is a burlesque which pokes fun at widely used schoolroom history books such as Oliver Goldsmith's 1771 "The