| Acknowledgments |
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| Preface |
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How Do We Love Jane Austen? Let Us Count the Ways |
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Do You Belong to the School of Gentle Jane? |
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Do You Belong to the Ironic Jane School? |
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12 | (1) |
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Do You Belong to the Subversive Jane School? |
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12 | (3) |
| Part I: Early Life and Juvenilia |
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17 | (14) |
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Steventon: The Austen Family |
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A Pruned Family Tree: Jane Austen's Immediate Family |
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19 | (5) |
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Life at the Steventon Rectory |
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24 | (2) |
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26 | (1) |
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``Cacoethes Scribendi'': The Incurable Itch to Write |
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27 | (1) |
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28 | (3) |
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Dancing Days and Juvenilia |
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Highlights of the Juvenilia |
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31 | (3) |
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Authorial Apprenticeship and Ridiculous Novels |
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34 | (1) |
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35 | (1) |
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Volume the First: Pulp Fiction |
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36 | (1) |
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Frederic and Elfrida: An Auspicious Debut |
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37 | (1) |
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Decapitations Are Us: Austen's Early Motif of Beheadings |
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38 | (1) |
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``My Hat, on Which My Principal Hopes of Happiness Depend'' |
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39 | (1) |
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Volume the Second: ``Sallies, Bonmots & Repartees'' |
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40 | (1) |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (2) |
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43 | (1) |
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Volume the Third: Evelyn and Catherine, or The Bower |
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43 | (1) |
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44 | (2) |
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Mrs. Leigh-Perrot: Austen's Brush with Incarceration and Other Scandals |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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Tom Lefroy, Harris Bigg-Wither, and Other Suitors |
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48 | (3) |
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51 | (1) |
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51 | (2) |
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Mr. Austen Exits Life's Pulpit |
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53 | (1) |
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Regina Barreca: Jane Austen as ``Bad Girl'' |
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54 | (3) |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (5) |
| Part II: Major Works |
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63 | (172) |
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65 | (25) |
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Publication: A Fraught Road |
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67 | (1) |
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68 | (1) |
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``Learning to Love a Hyacinth'' |
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69 | (2) |
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Joan Vredenburgh on Bath and General Tilney |
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71 | (2) |
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The Nature of Gothic Novels |
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73 | (2) |
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David Riede on Jane Austen and Romanticism |
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75 | (2) |
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``A Neighborhood of Voluntary Spies'' |
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77 | (2) |
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A Very Respectable Man, Though His Name Was Richard |
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79 | (1) |
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John Thorpe's Horse and Gig |
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80 | (1) |
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Henry Tilney's Knowledge of Muslin |
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81 | (1) |
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Quiz: Letter Writing in the Novels |
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82 | (2) |
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John Thorpe and Henry Tilney on Mrs. Radcliffe |
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84 | (1) |
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Jim Buckley on General Tilney's Rumford Fireplace |
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85 | (1) |
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86 | (1) |
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Average Income, England and Wales, 1803 |
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87 | (2) |
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``The Tell-Tale Compression of the Pages'' |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (23) |
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The Novels of Sensibility |
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92 | (1) |
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The Dangers of Sensibility |
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92 | (1) |
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Sense and Sensibility: A Checklist |
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93 | (2) |
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James Battersby on Jane Austen and the Eighteenth Century |
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95 | (2) |
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97 | (2) |
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Harriet Walter on Fanny Dashwood |
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99 | (2) |
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Fanny Dashwood and King Lear's Daughters |
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101 | (1) |
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Quiz: Who Said That? Great Lines from Jane Austen's Novels |
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102 | (2) |
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Elinor Dashwood: Governor of Her Own Feelings |
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104 | (2) |
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106 | (2) |
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108 | (1) |
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109 | (1) |
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109 | (2) |
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111 | (2) |
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113 | (27) |
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The Famous First Sentence |
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115 | (1) |
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The Publication History of Pride and Prejudice |
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115 | (2) |
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Primogeniture and Entailment |
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117 | (1) |
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Accomplishments and Eligibility |
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117 | (2) |
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Veronica Leahy on Conduct Literature |
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119 | (3) |
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122 | (2) |
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Quiz: Do Appearances Deceive? |
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124 | (2) |
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Fay Weldon on Jane Austen |
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126 | (2) |
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Clergymen: Ridiculous and Sublime |
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128 | (1) |
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129 | (2) |
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The Liveliness of Your Mind |
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131 | (3) |
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134 | (1) |
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135 | (1) |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (1) |
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138 | (2) |
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140 | (25) |
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The Unbearable Loneliness of Being Fanny Price |
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143 | (1) |
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143 | (2) |
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Mark Conroy on Jane Austen's Popularity |
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145 | (2) |
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Chawton: An Intense Burst of Writing |
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147 | (3) |
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150 | (1) |
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Quiz: Food in Jane Austen |
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151 | (1) |
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152 | (2) |
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Home Theatricals: Lovers' Vows |
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154 | (1) |
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Phoebe Spinrad on Mothers and Fathers in Austen's Novels |
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155 | (4) |
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159 | (2) |
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161 | (2) |
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163 | (2) |
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165 | (35) |
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``Handsome, Clever, and Rich'' |
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168 | (2) |
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Joan Wolf on the Regency Period |
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170 | (4) |
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Judith Martin: ``Miss Manners'' on Jane Austen |
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174 | (2) |
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Who Is Vulgar and How to Avoid Vulgarity |
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176 | (3) |
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Ten Surefire Ways to Be Vulgar |
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179 | (2) |
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181 | (1) |
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A Fling at the Slave Trade |
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182 | (2) |
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184 | (1) |
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184 | (2) |
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186 | (1) |
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Why Does Frank Churchill Change His Name? |
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187 | (1) |
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188 | (1) |
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Edith Lank on Jane Austen |
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189 | (2) |
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Edith Lank: A Theory on Harriet Smith's Parentage |
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191 | (2) |
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193 | (1) |
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Phyllida Law on Mrs. Bates |
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194 | (2) |
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Prunella Scales on Miss Bates |
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196 | (1) |
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197 | (3) |
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200 | (19) |
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Marlene Longenecker on Jane Austen and Feminism |
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202 | (2) |
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Quiz: Reading and Readers in Jane Austen |
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204 | (2) |
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Jan Fergus on Whiners and Complainers |
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206 | (2) |
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208 | (1) |
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209 | (2) |
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The Baronetage and the Peerage |
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211 | (1) |
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212 | (1) |
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Jane Smiley on Jane Austen |
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213 | (3) |
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The Famous Final Sentence of Persuasion |
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216 | (3) |
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Sandition: The Final Year |
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219 | (16) |
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Nineteenth-Century Wellville |
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220 | (1) |
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221 | (1) |
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222 | (2) |
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Quiz: Illnesses and Hypochondria |
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224 | (1) |
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225 | (2) |
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What Jane Austen Earned from Her Books During Her Lifetime |
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227 | (1) |
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Jane Austen's Illness and Death |
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227 | (1) |
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Cassandra's Conflagration |
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228 | (2) |
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Some Dissenting Views on Jane Austen |
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230 | (2) |
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John McAleer on Ancestry and Biography |
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232 | (3) |
| Part III: The Legacy |
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235 | (44) |
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Jane Austen in the Twentieth Century |
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237 | (19) |
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237 | (3) |
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Jennifer Crusie on Jane Austen as the Mother of the Modern Romance Novel |
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240 | (2) |
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Soap Opera Divas on Jane Austen |
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242 | (1) |
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Alton Abbey and Jane Austen Retreats |
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243 | (1) |
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Elsa Solender on the Jane Austen Society of North America |
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244 | (3) |
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247 | (1) |
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The Annual General Meeting of JASNA |
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248 | (2) |
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Cyber Jane: Austen Sites on the Internet |
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250 | (1) |
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Dramatizations of the Novels |
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250 | (2) |
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Emily Auerbach: The Courage to Write---Women Novelists and Poets |
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252 | (2) |
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Tobacco Cards: Jane Austen Is Gaining on Ty Cobb |
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254 | (1) |
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Jane Austen Books: A Bookstore |
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255 | (1) |
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256 | (14) |
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Linda Mizejewski on Austen and the Woman's Film |
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256 | (2) |
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Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield on Jane Austen in Hollywood |
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258 | (2) |
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Feature Films and Video Adaptations: A Selection |
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260 | (7) |
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Douglas McGrath on His Film Emma |
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267 | (3) |
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Continuations, Sequels, and Spin-offs |
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270 | (9) |
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Julia Barrett on Jane Austen Sequels |
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271 | (1) |
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Stephanie Barron on Jane Austen as Detective |
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272 | (3) |
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Sequels and Spin-offs: A Select List |
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275 | (4) |
| Bibliography |
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279 | (8) |
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Barry Roth, Bibliographer of Jane Austen Studies |
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279 | (2) |
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281 | (3) |
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284 | (1) |
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285 | (2) |
| Answers to Quizzes |
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287 | (4) |
| Index |
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291 | (8) |
| Illustration Credits |
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