V

V

THE IMPARTIAL SATIRIST

What has woman done?--"Nature's Salic law"--Women deficient in satire--Some types in the novels--The female snob--The valetudinarian--The fop--The too agreeable man--"Personal size and mental sorrow"--Knightley's opinion of Emma--Ashamed of relations--Mrs. Bennet--The clergy and their opinions--Worldly life--Absence of dogma--Authors confused with their creations

VI

PERSONAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL

The novelist and her characters--Her sense of their reality--Accessories rarely described--Her ideas on dress--Her own millinery and gowns--Thin clothes and consumption--Domestic economy--Jane as housekeeper--"A very clever essay"--Mr. Collins at Longbourn--The gipsies at Highbury--Topography of Jane Austen--Hampshire--Lyme Regis--Godmersham--Bath--London

VII

INFLUENCE IN LITERATURE

Jane Austen's genius ignored--Negative and positive instances--The literary orchard--Jane's influence in English literature

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

INDEX

FRONTISPIECE . . . . . . _By Violet Helm._

A LETTER OF JANE AUSTEN'S

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JANE AUSTEN

AND HER

COUNTRY-HOUSE COMEDY