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Acknowledgments
The authoress wishes to thank Cassandra Chouinard for her illustrations, which are not only beautiful but capture the fun of the story so well; Laura Boyle for pitching the idea and featuring the story so prominently on the Jane Austen Centre at Bath online magazine; Christina Hamilton for her expert copy editing; Laura McDonald for her patience and much-needed prodding, not to mention introducing me to so many wonderful books at Girlebooks; my Janeite Posse for posseing, in particular Team Tilney and the gang at Molland's who provided such great feedback and comments during the online serial publication of this Very Nice Story; my family, as always, for their encouragement of my writing and for embracing my Janeite freakiness, although they don't always understand it; and of course the incomparable Jane Austen for giving us these wonderful characters that continue to inspire me.
About the Author
Margaret C. Sullivan is the Editrix of AustenBlog.com, a compendium of news and commentary about Jane Austen's work in popular culture. She also created the website Molland's (www.mollands.net), a resource for Jane Austen fans. She is the author of The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World (Quirk Books, 2007) and contributed to the anthology Jane Austen Made Me Do It, edited by Laurel Ann Nattress (Random House, 2011). Margaret is a life member of the Jane Austen Society of North America.
About the Illustrator
At the age of 24, Cassandra finally changed her last name but is still entrapped in her famous sister's orbit, as you can see. (We shall get nothing more serious from her now...she is not in a sober mood.) A doodler since childhood, Cassandra Chouinard abandoned her painting studies to complete a master's degree in harpsichord performance at McGill University. Meanwhile, various stints as a street portraitist, student newspaper cartoonist, and vanity press illustrator attuned her eye to various details such as line, contour, and the all-too-quick approach of a deadline.