Jane Austen (1775-1817) was born in Hampshire, England, where she
spent most of her life. Though she received little recognition in
her lifetime, she came to be regarded as one of the great masters
of the English novel.
David M. Shapard is the author of The Annotated Pride and
Prejudice, The Annotated Persuasion,The Annotated Sense and
Sensibility,The Annotated Emma,The Annotated Northanger Abbey, and
The Annotated Mansfield Park. He graduated with a Ph.D. in European
History from the University of California at Berkeley; his
specialty was the eighteenth century. Since then he has taught at
several colleges. He lives in upstate New York.
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