Janeite
Janeitism did not begin until after the publication of J. E. Austen-Leigh's "A Memoir of Jane Austen" in 1870, when the literary elite felt that they had to separate their appreciation of Austen from that of the masses. The term "Janeite" was originally coined by the literary scholar George Saintsbury in his 1894 introduction to a new edition of "Pride and Prejudice". As Austen scholar Deidre Lynch explains, "he meant to equip himself with a badge of honor he could jubilantly pin to his own lapel". In the early twentieth century, Janeitism was "principally a male enthusiasm shared among publishers, professors, and literati". Rudyard Kipling even published a short story entitled "The Janeites" about a group of World War I soldiers who were secretly fans of Austen's novels.
Yaeko Nogami
Nogami started to explore historical fiction in the 1920s, with "Oishi Yoshio", a story about one of the Forty-seven Ronin in 1926. That same year, she and her husband translated Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice" into Japanese, which was the first translation of Austen into Japanese. Nogami liked "Pride and Prejudice" so much that in 1928 she published a novel, "Machiko", that reset "Pride and Prejudice" in Taishō era Japan, with the heroine Machiko who was inspired by Elizabeth Bennet, the hero Mr. Kawai who was based on Mr. Darcy, and the villain Seki who was based on Wickham.