All references to Austen’s works (unless otherwise indicated) are to the Cambridge edition of The Works of Jane Austen (Janet Todd, general editor): Juvenilia, ed. Peter Sabor, 2006; Northanger Abbey, ed. Barbara M. Benedict and Deirdre le Faye, 2006; Sense and Sensibility, ed. Edward Copeland, 2006; Pride and Prejudice, ed. Pat Rogers, 2006; Mansfield Park, ed. John Wiltshire, 2005; Emma, ed. Richard Cronin and Dorothy McMillan, 2005; Persuasion, ed. Janet Todd and Antje Blank, 2006; Later Manuscripts, ed. Janet Todd and Linda Bree, 2008. Citations of major novels refer to volume number (in roman numerals) and chapter number (in arabic numerals). Quotations from The Watsons and Sanditon are drawn from transcripts in the Later Manuscripts volume. Conventional abbreviations for all titles of more than one word are employed: for example, S&S.
The following works will be cited by short titles followed by volume and page references without endnotes:
Johnson, Dictionary: Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language; In which the words are deduced from their Original, and Illustrated in the different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. 2nd ed. 2 vols. London: W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton, T. and T. Longman, et al., 1755.
Shakespeare Plays: Samuel Johnson, ed., The Plays of William Shakespeare . . . to which are added Notes by Sam. Johnson. 8 vols. London: J. & R. Tonson et al., 1765.
Mills: A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
ODNB: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. www.oxford.com.
Reaney & Wilson: P. H. Reaney, revised with additions by R. M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
References to the following works will be cited in endnotes by short form of title, with volume and page numbers:
Camden-Gibson, Britannia: Britannia; or, A Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland. Together with the Adjacent Islands. Written in Latin by William Camden . . . and Translated into English, with Additions and Improvements, Revised, Digested and Published with large ADDITIONS by Edmund Gibson, D.D. 3rd ed. 2 vols. London: R. Ware, J. and P. Knapton et al., 1753.
Camden-Gough, Britannia: Britannia; or, A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, and IRELAND and the Islands Adjacent; From the Earliest Antiquity. By William Camden. Translated and Enlarged . . . By Richard Gough, F.A. & R.SS. Illustrated with Maps, and other Copper-Plates. 3 vols. London: T Payne and Son; G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1789.
Family Record: William Austen Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters; A Family Record. 2nd ed. New York: Russell & Russell, 1965. First published 1913.
JAAFR: Deirdre Le Faye, Jane Austen: A Family Record. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. (Not to be confused with the 1913 Family Record.)