Jane Austen During her time at Chawton, Jane Austen published four generally well-received novels. Through her brother Henry, the publisher Thomas Egerton agreed to publish "Sense and Sensibility", which, like all of Jane Austen's novels except "Pride and Prejudice", was published "on commission", that is, at the author's financial risk. When publishing on commission, publishers would advance the costs of publication, repay themselves as books were sold and then charge a 10% commission for each book sold, paying the rest to the author. If a novel did not recover its costs through sales, the author was responsible for them. The alternative to
Rejecting Jane created worldwide media coverage, which saw its author appear on radio and television programmes across the globe, including American news programmes and TV talk shows such as "Good Morning America". Rejecting Jane "Rejecting Jane" is the title of a 2007 article by British author David Lassman. The article, which was published in Issue 28 of "Jane Austen's Regency World" magazine, is a critique of the publishing industry through their inadvertent rejection of Jane Austen. Using the pseudonym 'Alison Laydee' - a play on Austen's original "nom de plume" "A Lady" - Lassman sent out the opening chapters of "Pride and