Illustrations for Jane Austen's other novels, by Charles E. Brock and others

The illustrations below which do not have an artist's name specified are by C.E. Brock; from the signatures, these illustrations seem to have been done in 1907-1908 (much thanks to Carolyn Nelson for providing copies of the illustrations that have been scanned in as greyscale JPEGs below).

• Emma.
• Mansfield Park.
• Northanger Abbey.
• Persuasion.
• Sense and Sensibility.

Selecting the thumbnail images below will bring up the full versions of the illustrations (the old greyscale JPEG scans of of C.E. Brock illustrations are each about 20-30k in filesize, while most of the other images are larger).
(Note: In some cases, particularly when using Netscape in a 256-color screen mode, greyscale JPEGs may be dithered to only six shades of grey; you may have better luck viewing such images with a separate (external) viewer program.)

Emma:

• Chapter 49: -- [Mr. Knightley:] "My dearest, most beloved Emma, tell me at once..."
• Illustration by Hugh Thomson:
  • Chapter 34: -- [Mr. Woodhouse:] "I am very sorry to hear, Miss Fairfax, of your being out this morning in the rain."

Mansfield Park:

• A woodcut illustration by Joan Hassall:
  • Chapter 2: -- She was found one morning by her cousin Edmund sitting crying on the attic stairs.
• Chapter 7: -- [Edmund and Mary:] Indulged with his favourite instrument.
• A woodcut illustration by Joan Hassall:
  • Chapter 7: -- A young woman, pretty, lively, with a harp as elegant as herself... was enough to catch any man's heart.
• (For the passage from Mansfield Park which is illustrated by the preceding two images, along with comments and other pictures of harp-playing Regency ladies, see this file.)
• Chapter 7: -- While Fanny cut the roses.
• An alternative illustration for Fanny cutting the roses? --
  • (This is actually a typographer's "cut" or "Grasset Ornament" from ca. 1900, that has nothing whatever to do with Mansfield Park.)
• Chapter 10: -- [Mr. Rushworth:] He walked to the gate and stood there without seeming to know what to do.
• A woodcut illustration by Joan Hassall:
  • Chapter 11: -- ``It is a great while since we have had any star-gazing.'' The glee began. ``We will stay till this is finished, Fanny,'' said [Edmund], turning his back on the window.
• Chapter 12: -- [Fanny Price and Tom Bertram:] ``It would give me the greatest pleasure, but that I am this moment going to dance.''
• Chapter 18: -- [Fanny Price:] She worked very diligently under her aunt's directions.
• Chapter 22: -- Dr. Grant himself went out with an umbrella.
• Another illustration, by Hugh Thomson:
  • Chapter 25: -- Fanny's last feeling in the visit was disappointment: for the shawl which Edmund was quietly taking from the servant to bring and put round her shoulders was seized by Mr Crawford's quicker hand, and she was obliged to be indebted to his more prominent attention.
• A woodcut illustration by Joan Hassall:
  • Chapter 26: -- She met Miss Crawford within a few yards of the Parsonage.
• Chapter 27: -- [Fanny and Edmund:] ``Oh, this is beautiful indeed!''
• Chapter 31: -- [Henry Crawford and Fanny Price:] ``No, no, no!'' she cried, hiding her face.
• A woodcut illustration by Joan Hassall:
  • Chapter 32: -- ``Why have you no fire to-day?''
• Chapter 36: -- [Fanny and Mary:] Good gentle Fanny.
• Chapter 38: -- [Fanny and William Price:] Looked at him for a moment in speechless admiration.
• Chapter 41: -- [At Portsmouth:] Fanny was obliged to introduce him.
• Illustration by Hugh Thomson to Mansfield Park:
  • Chapter 42: -- "Mrs. Price...only discomposed if she saw Rebecca pass by with a flower in her hat."
• Chapter 48: -- The joyful consent which met Edmund's application.

Northanger Abbey:

• Chapter 5: -- [Catherine Morland and Isabella Thorpe:] "They were always arm in arm when they walked"
• Chapter 11: -- [Catherine Morland:] "Anxious attention to the weather"
  [Note: This illustration has the most realistic depiction of Catherine Morland.]
• Another illustration of Northanger Abbey, not done by C. E. Brock (probably by Hugh Thomson):
  • Chapter 24: -- With a feeling of terror not very definable, she fixed her eyes on the staircase, and in a few moments it gave Henry to her view.
• Chapter 15: -- [Catherine Morland and John Thorpe:] "A famous good thing this marrying scheme, upon my soul!"
• Chapter 31: -- "Mr. and Mrs. Morland's surprise on being applied to by Mr. Tilney for their consent to his marrying their daughter was, for a few minutes, considerable"

For further color scans of Brock's Northanger Abbey illustrations, see this page.

Persuasion:

• Chapter 9: -- [Capt. Wentworth and Anne Elliot at Uppercross:] "In another moment, she found herself being released from him; some one was taking him from her"
• Chapter 12: -- "The horror of the moment to all who stood around!"
• Chapter 18: -- [Anne Elliot and Admiral Croft:] "In earnest contemplation of some print"
• Another illustration, by Hugh Thomson:
  • Chapter 23: -- "Placed it before Anne."

• Indeterminate illustration to Jane Austen by Hugh Thomson (illustration of a Regency carriage departure scene):
  

Sense and Sensibility:

NOTE: The illustrator chose to set his portrayals of this novel in the period of the early 1790's (when Jane Austen began working on Elinor and Marianne, the first version of Sense and Sensibility), and not in 1811, when the final revised Sense and Sensibility was published. (Also, the illustrator's conception of Col. Brandon is quite different from that of the recent movie version...)

• Chapter 12: -- [Marianne Dashwood and Willoughby:] "He cut off a long lock of her hair"
• Chapter 26: -- [Col. Brandon and Marianne:] "She immediately left the room"
• Chapter 34: -- "Mrs. Ferrars"
• Chapter 44: -- [Elinor and Willoughby:] "Miss Dashwood, I entreat you to stay"
• Chapter 46: -- "Colonel Brandon was invited to visit her"

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