Jane austen was 'technically and formally one of the most experimental novelists in the history of english literature' She invented technique you heard in this piece, which was one she invented at a parlour table in hampshire. Charlotte lucas is such a famous and vivid character not because we see her in a stof feminist light as a woman who gives up so much to kind of get material or stability with mister collins. You know that she's pregnant by the end of the novel? They then read each other for another chapter before it appears jane Austen takes Eburworth away from them. And here in that passage, you can hear the drama of
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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