Why we read Jane Austen : young persons in interesting situations / Susanna Clarke The radiance of Jane Austen / Eudora Welty Six reasons to read Jane Austen / Rebecca Mead Jane Austen : the six novels / E. M. Forster A life among the manuscripts : following in the steps of Dr. Chapman / Brian Southam Reading Northanger Abbey / Susannah Carson On Sense and Sensibility / Ian Watt From "Why we read Jane Austen" / Lionel Trilling Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice / W. Somerset Maugham Force of love : Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen / Martin Amis The nerds of Pride and Prejudice / Benjamin Nugent Austen portrays a small world with humor and detachment / J. B. Priestley Pride and Prejudice and the mysteries of life / Anna Quindlen A note on Jane Austen / C. S. Lewis Jane Austen and the good life / Louis Auchincloss What became of Jane Austen? / Kingsley Amis from "Jane Austen : Mansfield Park" / A. S. Byatt, Ignes Sodre The modest art of altering life / Alain De Botton Let others deal with misery / Fay Weldon Fanny was right : Jane Austen as moral guide / James Collins Why I like Jane Austen / Janet Todd Why do we read Jane Austen? / John Wiltshire The girls who don't say "whoo!" / Amy Heckerling Reading and rereading Emma / David Lodge from "Emma and the legend of Jane Austen" / Lionel Trilling The perfections of Jane Austen / Eva Brann from "The myth of limitation" / Donald Greene Terrible Jane / Amy Bloom Some thoughts on the craft of Austen's Persuasion / Diane Johnson Nothing but himself / Margot Livesey Jane Austen at sixty / Virginia Woolf Beautiful minds / Jay MacInerney