Fami was born one year after the great and brilliant jane austen died. They have more in common than people often think, she says. Both had sisters who loved them and talked to them and worked together with them. For me, when i read emma and pride and prejudice, the world is a lighter, better place because of jane austin's novels,. But when i read them, i was left thinking, there must be more than simply the pursuit of marriage. All of us, as novelists, write about the worlds that we can write. We cannot be anybody else. And you will not be surprised to know, because i write big adventure stories
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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