Juliette Wells is an associate professor and chair of the English department at Goucher University in Maryland. She’s a scholar of Jane Austen, and the editor of the 200th anniversary annotated edition of Emma, published late last month. In our interview, we discuss the coded language of Austen, and the annotations Wells developed for the anniversary edition. We also talk about all the adaptations of Austen’s work, the common questions Wells frequently receives, and about Austen’s life as a writer who took her work very seriously.
