Jane Austen (Writers and Their Work)

The Guide provides detailed notes- cultural. historical, legal, literary, linguistic, social, religious, scientific and medical - on a systematic basis, to all the references in Jane Austen's later manuscript works. These include Sanditon, The Watsons, Lady Susan, Plan of a Novel, and her Prayers and Poems. The Introduction gives the history of these manuscripts in the Austen family, their publication, and the history of their criticism from the 1870's to the present day.