The life of Jane Austen – and the celebrated books she wrote – has been pored over hundreds of times, by millions of fans and scholars. And she needs no introduction: this is the mind that brought us ...

If I write, It is a truth universally acknowledged that to begin an essay with the words “It is a truth universally acknowledged” marks the writer out as a person of taste and good humor who has read ...

To make a forced and artificial division, we might say that there exist Jane Austen novels of youth and folly: Emma and Northanger Abbey. The novels of coming-of-age and responsibility: Sense and ...