The manuscripts that survive from Jane Austen's maturity offer a unique insight into her life as a creative writer. This volume collects together, for the first time, all the literary manuscripts from Austen's adult years (with the exception of the cancelled chapters of Persuasion, in this edition printed with the finished novel), together with letters discussing the art of fiction, and her record of responses to her novels. Included here are the novella 'Lady Susan', the novel fragments of 'The Watsons' and 'Sanditon', poems and charades, and the comic 'Plan of a Novel . In an Appendix are...

The most authoritative and most fully annotated critical edition available of Austen's first novel.

This volume, first published in 2006, is a comprehensive scholarly edition of Jane Austen's innovative final novel.

This volume, first published in 2005, is a fully annotated scholarly edition of the 1816 edition of Emma.

This volume, first published in 2005, is a fully annotated and authoritative scholarly edition of Mansfield Park.

This volume, first published in 2006, is a fully annotated scholarly edition of Austen's most popular novel.

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel (1811), introduced its readers to many of the themes which would dominate Austen's future work. On one level it is a simple story of two sisters finding fulfilment within a society bounded by regulations and restrictions. But on another it is a comprehensive exploration of the moral dilemmas facing young women in the choices they have to make about their lives. Austen writes about everyday events of her own time with a subtlety and sensitivity unprecedented in the English novel. This edition, first published in 2006, takes as its...