Peter Sabor is Director of the Burney Centre and Canada Research Chair in Eighteenth-Century Studies at McGill University. He is a past president of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is General Editor of The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney and co-General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson. His publications on Austen include the Juvenilia (2006) volume in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen and Jane Austen's Manuscript Works (2013), co-edited with Linda Bree and Janet Todd.

• Preface Peter Sabor; Chronology; 1. Composition and publication Jan Fergus; 2. The literary context Bharat Tandon; 3. The historical context Jonathan Sachs; 4. Money and rank Robert D. Hume; 5. Contemporary responses Edward Copeland; 6. Style, structure, language Linda Bree; 7. The heroine John Wiltshire; 8. Setting and community Janine Barchas; 9. Music Ruth Perry; 10. Games, riddles and charades Jillian Heydt-Stevenson; 11. Translations Gillian Dow; 12. Screen versions Deidre Shauna Lynch; Guide to further reading.

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