Contents

Preface

Jane Stabler

vii

A Note on Texts

xvii

1.

Reading Pride and Prejudice over Fifty Years

1

2.

Sense and Sensibility

19

3.

Mothers and Daughters in Jane Austen

41

4.

Mrs. Jennings

63

5.

Lady Susan

77

6.

In Sickness and in Health: Courting and Nursing in Some Jane Austen Novels

93

7.

Food in Jane Austen’s Fiction

113

8.

Emma and Harriet: Walking Companions

133

9.

Emma in the Snow

149

10.

What’s Wrong with Mansfield Park?

155

11.

Jane Austen and Grandparents

175

12.

Jane Austen and Burns

187

13.

Sanditon and Suspense

199

Bibliography

215

Index

223