Jane austen
Student Companion to Jane Austen
Debra Teachman
Student Companions to Classic Writers
Greenwood Press Westport, Connecticut ∙ London
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Contents
| |Series Foreword vii |
| |1 The Life of Jane Austen 1 |
| |2 Literary Heritage 21 |
| |3 Sense and Sensibility (1811) 37 |
| |4 Pride and Prejudice (1813) 53 |
| |5 Mansfield Park (1814) 71 |
| |6 Emma (1815) 89 |
| |7 Northanger Abbey (1818) 109 |
| |8 Persuasion (1818) 129 |
| |Bibliography 149 |
| |Index 155 |
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The Life of Jane Austen
Jane Austen is often depicted as a very quiet spinster, growing up in a small country town with her father as rector of a simple country church. Her novels are often considered to focus only on the lives of a few individuals in a few families living, for the most