Jane Austen For Beginners

Robert Drydenis an Associate Professor of English at Hillyer College, University of Hartford, in West Hartford, Connecticut. He received his B.A. in English from Hampshire College, an M.A. in English from the University of New Orleans, and his Ph.D. in English from Louisiana State University with a concentration in 18th- and 19th-Century British Literature. He has written numerous scholarly articles about Jane Austen and other 18th-Century British Literature subjects, including contributions to the anthologyTeaching the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century(Cambridge Scholars Press) and to the forthcoming volumeJane Austen in a New Age: Pleasure, Passion, and Possessiveness in the Global Jane Austen Community(Palgrave Macmillan 2013), of which he is also co-editor.Joe Leeis an illustrator, cartoonist, writer, and clown. With a degree from Indiana University centering on Medieval History, Joe is also a graduate of Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey's Clown College. He worked for some years as a circus clown. He is the illustrator of a baker's dozen of For Beginners books including,Barack Obama,[Howard]Zinn, Shakespeare, Postmodernism, Deconstruction, Eastern Philosophy, andGlobal Warmingamong others. Joe lives in Bloomington, Indiana with his wife Mary Bess, son Brandon, cat George, and the terriers (or rather terrors) Max and Jack.