austenian

Of, relating to, or reminiscent of Jane Austen (1775–1817), English novelist noted for realism and biting social commentary.

A fan or admirer of Jane Austen; someone who studies the works of Jane Austen.

And in the sect—fairly large and yet unusually choice—of Austenians or Janites, there would probably be found partisans of the claim to primacy of almost every one of the novels.

This compilation is addressed to Austenians in general rather than to the fastidious collector, who is already provided for, on the grand scale, by Dr. Geoffrey Keynes’s Bibliography of 1929, with its wealth of detail and its precise facsimiles.