Professor John Mullan, editor of the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Sense and Sensibility, discusses how money influences the characters and plots of Jane Austen’s novels, and how the novelist herself lived.
John Mullan is Professor of English at University College London. He has previously edited editions of Daniel Defoe's Roxana (2008) and Samuel Johnson's The Lives of the Poets for Oxford World's Classics. He is the author of What Matters in Jane Austen? (Bloomsbury, 2012), Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Faber & Faber, 2008), and How Novels Work (OUP, 2006).
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