James Edward Austen-Leigh tells us what it was that made his aunt, the celebrated novelist Jane Austen, so remarkable.

Henry Tilney teases a bewildered Catherine Morland for her lazy vocabulary.

Emma tries to reconcile her father to the unaccountable tastes of his nearest and dearest.

Harriet Smith’s school gave her a grounding in good sense that even Emma Woodhouse could not quite overthrow.