The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen

The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, contains 11 critical essays by various hands on differing facets of Jane Austen’s career and achievement. Jan Fergus’s well documented “The professional woman writer” presents the “most poignant evidences of Austen’s professionalism”. Three early novels are the subject of Rachel M. Brownstein’s Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice. Brownstein writes “From her youth Jane Austen was committed to a clear moral vision and a stern moral code; she was always concerned with the same themes and issues and variations on the same plot”....