tion was written in the style of Joseph Addison. The magazine ran for 60 issues. Most of these issues were distributed in London by Egerton, Jane Austen's future publisher (Honan 59).
When Jane Austen died, she was buried at Winchester Cathedral, and her family paid tribute to "the benevolence of her heart, the sweetness of her temper, and the extraordinary endowments of her mind." They did not mention the six novels that would make her famous (Hodge 11). Four of her novels were published anonymously from 1811 to 1815, and the other two were published after her death in 1817. The first four were well-received, but all have become much more popular in this century (Bush xi).
Many of her novels began in one form and emerged in another. In 1796, Austen began a novel called "First Impressions," and this was eventually finished in 1797 and published as Pride and Prejudice. "Elinor and Marianne" was started in 1795 as a novel in letters, and was reshaped in 1797 and published as Sense and Sensibility. The novel "Catherine" woul
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