Reading Jane Austen

Introduction : "truths universally acknowledged"

Mansfield Park : "the real and consistent patron of the selected child"

Mansfield Park : "so long as it be a German play"

Mansfield Park : "if tenderness could ever be supposed wanting, good sense and good breeding supplied its place"

Pride and Prejudice : "she had never ... seen any thing that betrayed him to be unprincipled or unjust

any thing that spoke him of irreligious or immoral habits"

Emma : "she only demands from each of you either one thing very clever ... or two things moderately clever

or three things very dull indeed"

Persuasion : "the advantage of maturity of mind, consciousness of right, and one independent fortune between them"

The world of Jane Austen.