Came across the following, from an article in BBC Magazine:
"I think she betrays her time and I'm always gob smacked by what she ignored," says Celia Brayfield, author and lecturer at Brunel University. "She focused on such a narrow strain of human reality. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the Napoleonic War going on at the time when she was writing? She doesn't mention it"
I find these comments extremely amusing. If people are still reading Austen's novels some 200 years after they were written, then I'd say she obviously made some pretty good choices as a writer.
I wonder how many people will be pursuing Celia Brayfield's lectures 200 years from now?
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