Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-327) and index.
Dear Aunt Jane: Putting Her Down and Touching Her Up -- Beware of Swoons:Jane Austen's Early Writings -- Only Genius, Wit, and Taste: Northanger Abbey -- An Excellent Heart: Sense and Sensibility -- The Liveliness of Your Mind: Pride and Prejudice -- All the Heroism of Principle: Mansfield Park -- An Imaginist Like Herself: Emma -- The Advantage of Maturity of Mind: Persuasion -- Behold Me Immortal: Finding Jane Austen Today -- Appendix A. A Barkeeper Entering the Kingdom of Heaven: Did Mark Twain Really Hate Jane Austen? -- Appendix B. Full Text of Mark Twain's 'Jane Austen.'