Reading Jane Austen: 'Emma'

Neil Wenborn graduated in English from Magdalene College, Cambridge, and worked at the Bodleian Library in Oxford before pursuing a career in publishing, becoming Editorial Director of one of the UK’s leading independent publishers. He has been a freelance writer

and publishing consultant for more than thirty years and has published widely both in Britain and in the United States. His works include biographies of Stravinsky, Dvořák and Mendelssohn. He is co-editor of the highly respected History Today Companion to British History (Collins & Brown) and A Dictionary of Jewish–Christian Relations (Cambridge University Press), as well as of the poetry anthology Contourlines: New Responses to Landscape in Word and Image (Salt Publishing). A collection of his poetry, Firedoors, is published by Rockingham Press. Neil Wenborn is the author of Jane Austen: Emma and the forthcoming Charles Dickens: Great Expectations in the Literature Insights series.