Here is a selective bibliography on Jane Austen:

     Austen-Leigh, James Edward. A Memoir of Jane Austen, Richard Bentley (1870)
     [reprinted in the back of the Penguin edition of Persuasion; see also some
     excerpts from the Memoir on-line.].
     Austen-Leigh, William and Richard Arthur. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A
     Family Record, (1913).
     Austen-Leigh, William and Richard Arthur; revised and enlarged by Dierdre Le
     Faye. Jane Austen: A Family Record, The British Library (1989).
     Bradbrook, F.W. Jane Austen and her Predecessors, Cambridge University
     Press (1966).
     Burrows, John. Computation into Criticism: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels,
     and an Experiment in Method, Oxford University Press (1987).
     Butler, Marilyn. Jane Austen and the War of Ideas, Clarendon Press (1987).
     Cecil, David. Portrait of Jane Austen, Penguin (1978).
     Craik, W.A. Jane Austen: The Six Novels, Methuen (1965).
     Craik, W.A. Jane Austen in her Time, Nelson (1969).
     Duckworth, Alistair. The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's
     Novels, (1971).
     Dwyer, June. Jane Austen, (1989).
     Fergus, Jan. Jane Austen and the Didactic Novel (1983).
     Grey, J. David, ed., A. Walton Litz and Brian Southam, consulting editors. The
     Jane Austen Companion (with A Dictionary of Jane Austen's Life and Works by
     H. Abigail Bok), Macmillan, (1986).
     Grey, J. David, ed. Jane Austen's Beginnings: The Juvenilia and Lady Susan,
     UMI Research Press (1989).
     Heath, William. Discussions of Jane Austen, D.C. Heath (1961).
     Jenkins, Elizabeth. Jane Austen: A biography, Gollancz (1938).
     Johnson, C.L. Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel, (1988).
     Kirkham, Margaret. Jane Austen, Feminism and Fiction, Harvester Press /
     Barnes & Noble (1983).
     Lascelles, Mary. Jane Austen and her Art, Oxford University Press
     (1939)/(1954).
     Laski, Marghanita. Jane Austen and her World, Viking (1969).
     Leavis, F.R. The Great Tradition, Chatto and Windus (1947).
     Le Faye, Deirdre, ed. Jane Austen's Letters, 3rd. ed. Oxford University Press
     (1995). [Earlier editions edited by Chapman.]
          The text of the first (1884) edition of Jane Austen's Letters is available
          on-line.
     Litz, A. Walton. Jane Austen: A Study of Her Artistic Development, (1965).
     Mudrick, Marvin. Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery, University of
     California Press (1952).
     Nicolson, Nigel. The World of Jane Austen, Weidenfield and Nicolson (1991).
     Rees, Joan. Jane Austen, (1976).
     Scott, P.J. Jane Austen: A Reassessment, (1982).
     Southam, B.C. Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage, Routledge & K. Paul (1968);
     vol. 2 1870-1940 (1987).
     Southam, B.C., ed. Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and
     Mansfield Park: A Casebook, Macmillan (1976).
     Southam, B.C., ed. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion: A Casebook, Macmillan
     (1976).
     Tanner, Tony. Jane Austen, Macmillan (1986).
     Thompson, J.P. Between Self and World: The Novels of Jane Austen, (1988).
     Todd, Janet, ed. Jane Austen: New Perspectives, (1983).
     Tucker, George Holbert. Jane Austen the Woman: Some Biographical Insights,
     St. Martins (1994).
     Watt, Ian, ed. Jane Austen: A Collection of Critical Essays, (1963).
     Weldon, Fay. Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen, Michael Joseph
     (1984).
     Wilkes, Brian. Jane Austen, Hammond (1978).
     Woolf, Virginia. "Jane Austen at Sixty", Nation, vol. XXXIV (15 December
     1923), p.433.

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