Miss Austenish

English Etymology From en Miss Austen ish. Adjective 1 en archaic en Austenish. en Mrs. Humphry Ward [i.e., Mary Augusta Ward] Westmoreland Robert Elsmere London; New York, N.Y. Macmillan and Co. 1888 chapter II 24 https://archive.org/details/robertelsmere00wardiala/page/24/mode/1up How Miss Austenish it sounded: the managing rector’s wife, her still more managing old maid of a sister, the neighbouring clergyman who played the flute, the local doctor, and a pretty daughter just out—1 en Misadventure. A Novel. By W. E. Norris,author of “No New Thing,” “My Friend Jim,” etc. New York: Lowell. Armorel of Lyonesse. A Romance of To-Day. By Walter Besant,author of “For Faith and Freedom,” “The Children of Gibeon,” “All Sorts and Conditions of Men.” Pp. v. and 396, with sixteen illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers. The American: Journal of Literature, Science, the Arts, and Public Affairs XX 527 Philadelphia, Pa. 13 September 1890 433 https://archive.org/details/sim_american-a-national-journal_1890-09-13_20_527/page/433/mode/1up 1 Her cousin has all the odds in his favor, except that she is not in love with him; but then she is so sensible and so Miss-Austenish that that seems a small obstacle. en The Wares of Autolycus. A Novel for the Reaction. w:The Pall Mall Gazette LX 9328 4th 15 February 1895 5 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/392528917/ 2 If this were a little more clever, it would be Miss Austenish. en w:Robert Cortes Holliday VII Booth Tarkington Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Page & Company 1918 161 https://archive.org/details/boothtarkington00hollrich/page/161/mode/1up We have again, most happily, Mr. Tarkington’s Miss Austenish eye, which, figuratively speaking, sees in the occasion of a bad egg for breakfast the inception of a divorce. en w:Nikolai Tolstoy Patrick O’Brian ‘The smallest habitation I had ever seen’ Patrick O’Brian: The Making of the Novelist London Century 1945 2004 344 https://archive.org/details/patrickobrianmak0000tols/page/344/mode/1up 0 7126 7025 4 Excellent inn, the George, plainly the best in Lichfield, and staffed with good, kindly people. What an immense difference civility in an inn does make. The George, we noticed, has a grand Assembly room. Very Miss Austen-ish. en w:Jan Marsh Commonplace Poems and Prose London Everyman, J. M. Dent; Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle 1994 1999 section “Fiction” 354 https://archive.org/details/poemsprose0000ross/page/354/mode/1up 0 460 87536 1 It [Commonplace by Christina Rossetti] was very much ‘in the Miss Austen-ish vein’ as Christina’s brother [Dante] Gabriel [Rossetti] remarked, and indeed boasts a disastrous picnic and a garrulous chaperone in Miss Drum to rival Emma’s Miss Bates, while the maiden ladies of Mrs Gaskell’s Cranford (1853) also come to mind. en eponyms