About the Author

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. She is the author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, and Mansfield Park. MarilynButler is rector of Exeter College, Oxford. She has also edited Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent and Ennui for Penguin Classics.

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“Jane Austen is the Rosetta stone of literature.” —Anna Quindlen

"Jane Austen is the Rosetta stone of literature." -Anna Quindlen