What Matters in Jane Austen?_Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

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by John Mullan


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  Acknowledgements

  I would like to thank all those who have given me advice and information used in the preparation of this book: Ann Channon at the Jane Austen’s House Museum, Susan Allen Ford, Juliet McMaster, Sophie Missing, Charlotte Mitchell, the late Brian Southam, Elizabeth Steele, John Sutherland, Amanda Vickery and Henry Woudhuysen.

  Julian Hoppit gave me guidance about money in the early nineteenth century; I owe Malthusian reflections in chapter 5 to Karen O’Brien; Deirdre Le Faye advised me on mourning habits and on money, again. I have also relied a good deal on her wonderful Chronology of Jane Austen.

  Students whom I have taught in classes on Jane Austen’s fiction at University College London over the years may well recognise their own insights in these pages. If so, I hope they will not be displeased, these classes having been my most dependable source of inspiration.

  I have tested parts of this book out at talks I have given to members of the Jane Austen Society and the Jane Austen Society of North America. I would like to thank all my friends in these societies for their suggestions and unfailingly accurate corrections. Particular thanks are due to Marilyn Joyce and Jill Webster for their comments on draft chapters. It is a great sadness to me that Vera Quin, doyenne of the Jane Austen Society, died as this book was nearing completion. Vera had a knowledge of Austen and her predecessors unrivalled by most academics; I only wish she were here to read what I have written and gently put me right where necessary.

  I am grateful to all those at Bloomsbury who have nudged me over the finishing line: Nick Humphrey, Emily Sweet, Catherine Best and above all my patient yet galvanising editor, Bill Swainson. I owe a special debt to my agent, Derek Johns, who gave me confidence in what I was doing from the very beginning.

  I hope that my family’s interest in Jane Austen will have survived what must have seemed my obsession with her writing and am grateful for their tolerance. I could never have finished the book without my wife Harriet’s support and encouragement.

  This book is dedicated to the memory of Tony Tanner, whose Penguin intro
ductions to Jane Austen’s novels first showed me how exciting they were. He later became my teacher at university and then a colleague; I hope that this book preserves some memories of the many conversations about Jane Austen that we had over the years.

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