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Volume I: biographical background; publishing history; critical history;the nineteenth-century response; writers on Jane Austen. Voluem II: thesocial background; the intellectual background; the twentieth-centuryresponse. Volume III: juvenilia; "Lady Susan"; "The Watsons"; the letters;"Northanger Abbey"; "Sense and Sensibility"; "Pride and Prejudice". VolumeIV: "Mansfield Park"; "Emma"; "Persuasion"; "Sanditon".