i think the point underlying those articles is that a lot of people have clined bhouh, of course they couldn't have written those books. Just because she was never married doesn't mean she didn't write the greatest love stories ever written. The litimus test of celebrity has to be sort of denial am and it, in austin's case, to am th this idea that sometimes people revert to biography for everything. That kind of denial of the human imagination, i found offensive. And also, at the same time, a the food for a columnn well, hat's to be honest.
Author and professor Janine Barchas of the University of Texas talks about her book, The Lost Books of Jane Austen, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The conversation explores Austen's enduring reputation, how the cheap reprints of her work allowed that reputation to thrive, the links between Shakespeare and Austen, how Austen has thrived despite the old-fashioned nature of her content, Colin Firth's shirt, and the virtue of studying literature.