Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath. It is Catherine's first visit there. She meets new friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and goes to balls. Catherine finds herself pursued by Isabella's brother, the rough-mannered, slovenly John Thorpe, and by her real love interest, Henry Tilney. She also becomes friends with Eleanor Tilney, Henry's younger sister. Henry captivates her with his view on novels and his knowledge of history and the world. General Tilney (Henry and Eleanor's father) invites Catherine to visit their estate, Northanger Abbey, which, from her reading of Ann Radcliffe's Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho, she expects to be dark, ancient and full of Gothic horrors and fantastical mystery.

More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Walter, Anne's fatuous, snobbish father and her equally self-involved older sister Elizabeth were dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that he was no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall, the family estate. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's late mother, persuaded her to break the engagement. Now 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former love when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth is now a captain and wealthy from maritime victories in the Napoleonic wars. However, he has not forgiven Anne for rejecting him. While publicly declaring that he is ready to marry any suitable young woman who catches his fancy, he privately resolves that he is ready to become attached to any appealing young woman except for Anne Elliot.

Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.

MANSFIELD PARK é o trabalho mais autobiográfico de Jane Austen, refletindo o mundo de pretendentes religiosos e proprietários de terra, das caçadoras de maridos, dos esnobes e dos tolos do interior. As questões sociais também são discutidas, no romance, Fanny surpreende sua família adotiva ao levantar a questão sobre o envolvimento deles com a escravidão. Com 12 anos, Fanny Price vai viver com os seus parentes ricos em Mansfield Park. Inteligente, estudiosa e uma escritora com uma imaginação irônica e valores éticos bastante seguros, aproxima-se bastante de Edmund, o único de entre os seus primos que partilha da sua paixão pelos livros. Fanny, que com a idade se tornou muito bonita e amável, depressa atrai as atenções de um vizinho, Henry Crawford. O tio de Fanny, Thomas, fomenta o relacionamento entre os jovens mas, para seu descontentamento, Fanny impõe a Henry que este prove ser digno do seu amor. Enquanto Edmund corteja a irmã de Henry, e a relação entre o dinheiro de Thomas e a escravatura do Novo Mundo se torna mais clara, Fanny tem de avaliar a índole de Henry e defender o seu coração e a sua orientação.

Emma Woodhouse, aged 20 at the start of the novel, is a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman in Regency England. She lives on the fictional estate of Hartfield in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her elderly widowed father, a hypochondriac who is excessively concerned for the health and safety of his loved ones. Emma's friend and only critic is the gentlemanly George Knightley, her neighbour from the adjacent estate of Donwell, and the brother of her elder sister Isabella's husband, John. As the novel opens, Emma has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her best friend and former governess. Having introduced Miss Taylor to her future husband, Mr. Weston, Emma takes credit for their marriage, and decides that she rather likes matchmaking.