CONTENTS:

PART ONE: GENERAL ESTIMATES, 1815-1870
Jane Austen on Herself
Contemporary and Victorian Opinions on Her Art (Walter Scott, Richard Whately, Walter Scott, T. B. Macaulay, Charlotte Bronte, G. H. Lewes, Julia Kavanagh, Margaret Oliphant, Richard Simpson)

PART TWO: CRITICAL COMMENT AND STUDIES ON INDIVIDUAL NOVELS

1. Sense and Sensibility (Anonymous, Walter Scott, Julia Kavanagh)
Grey and Cool (Reginald Farrer)
Irony and Convention versus Feeling (Marvin Mudrick)
Sense Triumphantly Introduced to Sensibility (Ian Watt)
Secrecy and Sickness in Sense and Sensibility (Tony Tanner)

2. Pride and Prejudice (Anonymous, Anonymous, Annabella Milbanke, Lady Darcy, Mary Russell Mitford, Walter Scott, Henry Crabb Robinson, G. H. Lewes)
The Greatest Miracle of English Literature (Reginald Farrer)
A Pattern Formed by Diverging and Converging Lines (Mary Lascelles)
Caricature as Criticism of Real People in Real Society (D. W. Harding)
Light and Bright and Sparkling – Irony and Fiction in Pride and Prejudice (Reuben A. Brower)
A Remorseless Realist (Brigid Brophy)

3. Mansfield Park (Earl of Dudley, Anne Romilly, Various Opinions recorded by Jane Austen, Richard Whately, William Charles Macready)
Jane Austen’s Gran Rifiuto (Reginald Farrer)
The Priggishness of Mansfield Park (Lionel Trilling)
Mansfield Park (Lionel Trilling)
The First Modern Novel in England (Q. D. Leavis)
What Became of Jane Austen? (Kingsley Amis)