Though relatively unknown during her lifetime, Jane Austen (1775–1817), is among the most widely read novelists in English literature. Her literary classics, such as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, bridge the gap between romance and realism. Helena Kelly holds degrees in Classics and English from Oxford and King’s College, London....

Though relatively unknown during her lifetime, Jane Austen (1775–1817), is among the most widely read novelists in English literature. Her literary classics, such as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, bridge the gap between romance and realism. Joan Klingel Ray is Professor of English Literature at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and...