Publishing Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen and the Writing Profession: Review

Congratulations to Magie Burns, whose book Publishing Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen and the Writing Profession, has received an excellent review from Claire Grogan at the Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature journal.

“Publishing Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen and the Writing Profession” provides illuminating and suggestive ways to understand the curious publishing history of Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey (1818), which has been the subject of much scholarly speculation.
[…] Access to and scrutiny of innumerable digitized sources helps provide new material and insights into the publishing world and business. Burns offers careful and extensive reading of advertisements, including those for “Susan,” in newspapers, magazines, and end pages of other publications.
[…] the study offers some valuable and fascinating primary material for scholars and fans of Austen alike.

The book is available to order at Publishing Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen and the Writing Profession. The full review can be found at 'Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature' (41.2), Fall 2022 issue.