Austen Reviews

This is a page with some information about older literary reviews of Austen’s works. One source is the book Famous Reviews, selected and edited by R. Brimley Johnson (London, 1914). An eBook copy of Famous Reviews is available from Project Gutenberg. A free pdf copy is also available from Google Books. The following reviews from the journal The Quarterly Review are in the book:

• Sir Walter Scott’s review of Emma (Quarterly Review, October 1815)
• Archbishop Richard Whately’s review of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (Quarterly Review, January 1821) (link coming soon)