Jane Austen's reading in context -- Jane Austen's negotiations with her reading -- Jane Austen's games of ingenuity -- Austen's readers: contexts I -- Austen's readers: contexts II -- Austen's readers I: affection and appropriation -- Austen's readers II: opposition and resistance -- Austen's readers III: friendship and criticism -- Austen's readers IV: sociability and devotion
'Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786-1945' is a study of the history of reading Jane Austen's novels, focused on the responses of ordinary readers