Unexpected Intersections

I can't remember a time when I didn't know that there was a famous British author named Jane Austen, but I never encountered her work as a younger reader. As an adult, my first encounters with her work were through film adaptations, which prompted me to purchase three of her best-known novels, Pride and Prejudice , Sense and Sensibility , and Emma , with the intention of reading them. But life and a couple of international moves didn't support those reading goals for several years.