Jane Austen (1775–1817) was the seventh child of a parish rector. The novels published in Austen’s lifetime include Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park. Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published after her death. Her juvenilia are collected in Penguin Classics asLove and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings. Juliette Wells is associate professor and chair of the English department at Goucher College. She is the author of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination.