Preface to the 1996 edition -- Preface -- A partial pedigree of Jane Austen -- Jane Austen's brothers and some of their descendants -- The end, July 1817 -- Steventon, 1775-1787 -- The Juvenilia and beyond, 1787-1795 -- The years of the first "trilogy," 1796-1799: Pride and prejudice, Sense and sensibility, Northanger Abbey -- The treacherous years, 1800-1806 -- The light and the dark, 1807-1810 -- The years of the second "trilogy," 1811-1816: Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion -- Waiting for death, 18161-1817 -- Notes on the pictures.
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