Introduction: Jane Austen's legacy -- Juvenilia: a liberal conservative -- Sense and Sensibility: poor law reform -- Pride and Prejudice: the speenhamland system -- Northanger Abbey and the Watsons: the restriction act -- Mansfield Park: the condition of England -- Emma: William Pitt's utopia -- Persuasion: the post-Waterloo crash -- Sanditon: a political novel.
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