First Impressions: Letting Jane Austen into Your Life 1 -- Pride and Prejudice 3 -- Sentence 11 -- Importance of a Good Carriage 13 -- Why I Married Her. By Mr. Bennet 18 -- An Interview with Joan Klingel Ray, author of Jane Austen for Dummies 20 -- Sense and Sensibility 25 -- Willoughby v. Brandon 29 -- Clergy in Austen's Fiction 34 -- Lives of Jane Austen 36 -- Mansfield Park 48 -- What Does Lady Bertram Do? 53 -- What Happened at the Ha-ha? 55 -- Raiders of the Early Works: The Juvenilia 57 -- Love and Freindship: "Beware My Laura" 60 -- Excerpt from the Juvenilia: "The Adventures of Mr. Harley" 63 -- If She Could See Them Now: Austen's Relationship with Her Publishers 64 -- Emma 69 -- Mr. Knightley, Detective 73 -- Emma's Dream: Austen and Shakespeare Meet on a Midsummer Night 75 -- Initial Impressions or, "I'm Missing Your Letters": An Austen Crossword Puzzle 79 -- Northanger Abbey 82 -- Say Cheese!: Picturesque Beauty and Jane Austen 89 -- Northanger Abbey: The Graphic Novel. A discussion with Anne Timmons, graphic artist 92 -- Ideal Jane Austen Tour 97 -- More than a Constitutional: Heroines Who Favor Walking 105 -- Watsons and Lady Susan 107 -- Cinderella and Evil Witches: Myth-Placed Affections 112 -- On Reading Jane Austen 115 -- What's Up with White Soup? Understanding Food in Jane Austen 118 -- Jane Austen Film Chronology 125 -- Jane Austen at the Movies 128 -- An Interview with Karen Joy Fowler, the author of The Jane Austen Book Club 141 -- LARPing and JARPing 148 -- Homage to Jane: Movies that Echo Austen 154 -- Music in 1995 BBC/A&E Pride and Prejudice 158 -- Pride and Prejudice II, by Kentuck 161 -- Pride and Prejudice: The Rejected Screenplays 162 -- Persuasion 164 -- Mrs. Bennet was Right: The Marriage Plot in Austen Novels 170 -- Was Lady Russell Wrong? 175 -- "You Should Be in Pictures": Jane Austen's Portrait 177 -- Best Gifts for a Janeite 181 -- Sanditon 183 -- Winchester Cathedral 186 -- Sleuthing Regency Dresses 188 -- Jane Austen Aptitude Test 193 -- What Makes a Janeite? 197 -- Jane Austen in the Twenty-First Century 199 -- If Jane Austen Had Been a Man 202 -- Austen the Novelist 204 -- Last Words: Acknowledgments 208 -- Answers to the Crossword Puzzle 211 -- Answers to The Jane Austen Aptitude Test 213.