Every character, however little they have to say, sounds only like themselves. And there are some characters ony speak once in the whole of their novels. The great thing about jane austen, i think, and her dialogue, is that every character speaks only like himself. But no, we haven't cut everything, anything, except those first senters of a chapter. We just let you have a dalo. By the end of this, it's brilliant. Such economy. You know everything you need to know about the set up for the novel. In 18 13, nobody met these people before. Elizabeth's not there. It's just mister and missus bennet
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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