The last thing in the whole book you're told about what captain wentworth thinks is that he wants to get married a mine who s lo o nice about the navy. And then jane austin writes this very innocent sentence, but her power with him was gone forever. You're left with her to watch his slowly, unwillingly at first, but then stimulated by jealousy, returning to her. That too is a wonderful example of hor narrative gives you somebody's self deception as much as somebody's thoughts.
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.
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