Regulated hatred - an aspect of the work of Jane Austen; family life in the 18th and early 19th centuries; social habit and family life in Jane Austen; Jane Austen and moral judgement; character and caricature in Jane Austen; "Mansfield Park"; "Northanger Abbey"; an introduction to "Persuasion"; civil falsehood in Emma; fraternal and conjugal love. Appendices: the supposed letter form of "Sense and Sensibility"; an introduction to the Austen-Leigh memoir; D.W. Harding - a biographical chronology.