Reading With Jane Austen ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Reading With Jane Austen ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Why is seeing “Pride and Prejudice” as Jane Austen saw it so important? The answer is simple enough. She knows the work better than anyone else. Jane Austen might be the greatest of all women novelists. Certainly, there are few others who can reasonably be said to deserve such an accolade. One thinks perhaps of the great Norwegian novelist, Sigrid Undset, who justifiably won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but, with that one possible exception, …