Description: "This unique volume compiles Austen's unpublished mature work. An enlightening companion to the published novels, it includes her comic poems, a novella, two unfinished novels, literary spoofs and letters giving advice on writing fiction. Explanatory endnotes illuminate cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life"--
Brief description: Janet Todd is a critic, editor, novelist and biographer of Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughters, and Irish pupils. Her latest novel is Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden (2021). Todd taught at Rutgers, UEA, Glasgow and Aberdeen. A former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, she is now an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College.