I'm going to leave e samuel's beautiful voice in everybody's ears. I think i am going to tell you what the votes were as everyone was coming in, and then in about 12 minutes, you're going to vote again. We'll talk a little bit. You'll have your chance to ask questions, and it will be interesting to see the transformation if there is one. So before you all came in for jane austen, 55% of you put your cards in the box. 24 % of you went for emily bronte. That leaves a crucial swing you of 21%. So we're's definitely in an under dog, you know, ation. But there
Jane Austen created the definitive picture of Georgian England. No writer matches Austen’s sensitive ear for the hypocrisy and irony lurking beneath the genteel conversation. That’s the argument of the Janeites, but to the aficionados of Emily Brontë they are the misguided worshippers of a circumscribed mind. In Wuthering Heights, Brontë dispensed with Austen’s niceties and the upper-middle class drawing rooms of Bath and the home counties. Her backdrop is the savage Yorkshire moors, her subject the all-consuming passions of the heart. To help you decide who should be crowned queen of English letters we have the lined up the best advocates to make the case for each writer. In this event, chaired by author and critic Erica Wagner, we invited guests including author Kate Mosse, Professor and author John Mullan, and actors Mariah Gale, Samuel West and Dominic West, to discuss each writer's influence.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices