The History of England

A widow with charm, no scruples and a daughter to marry off manipulates everyone within reach. Told entirely in letters, this short novel gives Austen her most enjoyable villain.

Jane Austen

Austen wrote this parody of sentimental romance when she was fourteen, and the jokes still land. A short burlesque in letters from her teenage notebooks.

Jane Austen

Emma Watson returns to a family she barely knows and a marriage market she cannot afford to lose. Austen abandoned the novel unfinished, and it breaks off with the story still opening up.

Jane Austen

Austen's last project, set in a seaside village being talked into fashion by its own speculators. She wrote eleven chapters before illness stopped her, and this is that fragment.

Jane Austen

Her surviving correspondence, mostly written to her sister Cassandra, covering daily life, money, family and her writing. The closest thing we have to Austen speaking in her own voice.

Jane Austen