Jane Austen
HE British novelist Sheila KayeSmith, in a BBC talk on Jane Austen, managed to pack a brief quarter-of-an-hour full to overflowing with information and ideas about her subject, and although the talk shed light from no new angle, it was nevertheless pleasantly illuminating. The speaker compared Jane Austen with Charlotte Bronté, but merely to mention that whereas the latter put much of her own experience into her work, in no work. of Jane Austen’s can we discover any personal adventure. She put her surrounding world, her neighbourly contacts, her social experience on paper in a manner well nigh perfect, and those critics who have found fault with her for not writing more about the political and military history of her day have written without true perception; such criticism is like asking a’ miniature painter to do a battle mural. Miss Kaye-Smith, while admitting the ; popularity of Pride and Prejudice, suggested that "more discriminating readers like Emma or Persuasion better." .At this I resolved to revisit the library (in common, I hope with many listeners) for of the last two books I confess I have read neither.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 391, 20 December 1946, Page 10
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188Jane Austen New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 391, 20 December 1946, Page 10
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