i studied school when i was 17, and i thought it was all about people trying to get married. It dawned on me slowly through my twenties, and i came like saul to damascus,. finally to realize what a blithering fool i'd been as a teanager. So relatively late. Ge, i'm afraid so. And kate, ah, well, just picture this, 19 78, a an amazing 18 year old cape bush dancing in a red dress. Thansit very good. Well, that's an excellent background, m for the argument that you're hearing. And the extracts also, you will hear. Am, superbly acted. John, why
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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