You cannot be at perfect ease with a friend who does not joke, and I suppose this is what deprived me of a final satisfaction in the company of Anthony Trollope, who jokes heavily or not at all, and whom I should otherwise make bold to declare the greatest of English novelists; as it is, I must put before him
Jane Austen, whose books, late in life, have been a youthful rapture with me.
Still, on the whole, I'd rather live without them than without Jane Austen."
"Jane Austen? I don't like Jane Austen," said Rachel.
This scholarly yet accessible study of the world of
Jane Austen fans, or Janeites, explores writing and other fanmade content found in online fan spaces.
"
Jane Austen and Comedy" invites reflection not only on her inclusion of laughter and humor, the comic, jokes, wit, and all the other topics that can so readily be grouped under the broad umbrella that is comedy, but also on the idea or form of comedy itself, and on the way that this form may govern our thinking about many things outside the realm of Austen's work.
Written for an audience of children ages 9 years and up, "
Jane Austen for Kids" introduces a world famous English female author from the Revolutionary influenced era of 1775 through 1817.
Presented as a "graphic imagining" of young
Jane Austen, the author certainly portrays her devotion to her craft and posits an interesting possible inspiration for Pride and Prejudice.
She returns in the character of early 19th century British novelist
Jane Austen, whose novels continue to achieve popularity and new readers 200 years after their original publication.
AS front-page stories in July 2017 about the 200th anniversary of her death emphasized,
Jane Austen has probably become the most popular pre-twentieth-century author in English apart from Shakespeare.
Women writers said at a panel discussion on the book 'Austenistan', an anthology of seven short stories launched on Saturday to celebrate
Jane Austen's bicentenary at British Council.
