Want to know more about Jane Austen? This podcast features an interview with Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray, PhD the author of Jane Austen For Dummies. In this interview, Ray discusses the life and times of Jane Austen and pays particular attention to how the real life of Austen relates to portrayal of her life in recent movies. Themes of Austen's books such as relationships, romance, marriage, class, as well as societal roles of women and men in the 19th Century.