Searching for Jane Austen

Dear Aunt Jane: puttting 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".