The purpose of this paper is to describe the “reporting expressions” that introduce direct speeches in Austen's works. It is one of the serial papers on “Reporting Expressions of English Prose after the 17th Century“ which the author has been researching since 1979. Jane Austen creates a lot of quite new reporting expressions, and uses them effectively in her novels. The author classifies them into more than 180 types, and describes their distinctive features according to the types.