The first edition of the novel (1813). Introductory materials and revised and expanded footnotes by Donald Gray and Mary A. Favret. Biographical portraits of Austen by family members and- new to this edition- by Jon Spence (from Becoming Jane Austen) and Paula Byrne (from The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things). Fourteen critical essays-eleven of them new to this edition. "Writers on Austen"-a new section of brief comments by Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and others. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.