Jane Austen 
Plan of a Novel 

‘Plan of a Novel, according to Hints from Various Quarters’ is a short satirical work by Jane Austen, probably written in May 1816. It was published in complete form for the first time by R. W. Chapman in 1926, extracts having appeared in 1871. It has been said that ‘in the ‘Plan’ and the correspondence from which it arose, we have the most important account of what Jane Austen understood to be her aims and capacities as a novelist’.