[PERSONAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL]

The novelist and her characters—Her sense of their reality—Accessories rarely described—Her ideas on dress—Her own millinery and gowns—Thin clothes and consumption—Domestic economy—Jane as housekeeper—"A very clever essay"—Mr. Collins at Longbourn—The gipsies at Highbury—Topography of Jane Austen—Hampshire—Lyme Regis—Godmersham—Bath—London

VII

[INFLUENCE IN LITERATURE]

Jane Austen's genius ignored—Negative and positive instances—The literary orchard—Jane's influence in English literature

[BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE]

[INDEX]

[FRONTISPIECE] . . . . . . By Violet Helm.

[A LETTER OF JANE AUSTEN'S]