Letters

Question 1

Emma

Answer 1

to those Readers who have preferred P&P. it will appear inferior in Wit, & to those who have preferred MP. very inferior in good Sense -1815

Question 2

Austen’s reflection on Emma

Answer 2

to beleive that I have not yet — as almost every Writer of Fancy does sooner or later — overwritten myself. -1815

Question 3

Return to Walter Scott

Answer 3

‘be sorry that so clever a Man as the Reveiwer of Emma, should consider it as unworthy of being noticed’

Question 4

Reaction to Mansfield Park

Answer 4

‘the manner in which I treat the Clergy, delights them very much.’, ‘not half so entertaining’ as P&P

Question 5

Austen on Fanny MP

Answer 5

‘my Heroine shall not merely be wafted down an American river in a boat by herself, she shall cross the Atlantic’

Question 6

Northanger Abbey

Answer 6

‘Miss Catherine is put upon the Shelve for the present, and I do not know that she will ever come out’

Question 7

P&P

Answer 7

‘I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print’ - novel is ‘my own darling child’