“Good afternoon, ma’am. Do you ever feel that it is so hard to know how to be happy?”

Stephanie Insley Hershinow
Stephanie Insley Hershinow is associate professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY. She is the author of Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019) and editor of Jane Austen’s Emma (Norton, 2022).